[mapserver-users] upgrade Mapserver 5.4 to 6.0 (gulp!)

[Chris Green]

Hi Michael


I'm using Fedora 7. My main problem is the totally daunting list of
libraries and other packages like GD and GDAL which have to be available or
pre-compiled before you can even start compiling Mapserver 6.0. But it seems
to me that most if not all of the required libraries must already be in
place for Mapserver 5.4 to run (which it does), so I was hoping that someone
could say "don't worry, just do this...."



Chris



-----Original Message-----
From: Smith, Michael D ERDC-CRREL-NH [mailto:michael.smith at usace.army.mil] 
Sent: 09 June 2011 16:31
To: Chris Green; 'Stephen Woodbridge'; mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] upgrade Mapserver 5.4 to 6.0 (gulp!)

Chris,

What Linux OS are you on? There are packages for Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL, etc.

See http://mapserver.org/download.html#linux


On 6/9/11  11:04 AM, "Chris Green" <chris.green at ibstv.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi Steve
> 
> Thanks for your comments. I have read the documentation and realise that
> there will be quite a few changes to my mapfile(s). I'm not at all worried
> about that, it's just a question of patiently working through the changes.
> However I am very apprehensive of the upgrade itself. Before I installed
the
> FGS package I spent many, many hours trying to compile and install
Mapserver
> myself but eventually had to admit defeat and resort to FGS.
> 
> Now there is no FGS to fall back on, I'm hoping for some guidance (or
maybe
> just some encouragement!)
> 
> 
> Chris
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> [mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Stephen
> Woodbridge
> Sent: 09 June 2011 15:42
> To: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] upgrade Mapserver 5.4 to 6.0 (gulp!)
> 
> On 6/9/2011 8:58 AM, Chris Green wrote:
>> Hi All
>> 
>> I have been running Mapserver 5.4 for about 18 months on a Fedora core 7
>> Unix platform. I installed it via the FGS installer package which made
>> the installation process relatively straightforward.
>> 
>> Now I see that Mapserver 6.0 has been released and it includes some
>> features that I really want to take advantage of, particularly the
>> ability to cluster dense features. My problem is that apparently the FGS
>> package has not been updated, so from the Mapserver website it looks
>> like I have start from scratch with a scarily long list of libraries and
>> compilations required to install Mapserver 6.0 from scratch. As
>> something of a Unix novice I don't fancy this very much!
>> 
>> I am wondering if there is a simple way to in effect replace my existing
>> Mapserver 5.4 executable with Mapserver 6.0 - could I assume that
>> Mapserver 6.0 only requires the same libraries as 5.4 and just compile
>> the 6.0 executable? Any guidance on the direction to take here would be
>> gratefully received.
> 
> Hi Chris,
> 
> Be aware that 5.4 to 6.0 is probably NOT a transparent upgrade from a
> mapfile point of view. Make sure you read the mapserver migration guide.
> One of the big changes that we made in 6.0 was to clean up some of the
> mapfile syntax and remove some deprecated tags. These should not be
> major changes but it is likely that some (all?) of your mapfiles will
> need to be tweaked to get them to work.
> 
> So please plan accordingly.
> 
> -Steve W
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