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

[Chris Green]

Hi Brent

 

Thank you for your very helpful comments, much appreciated. It is pretty
clear to me that I have to start by changing my elderly Fedora to something
better suited to supporting GIS applications including Mapserver 6.0. It is
strange - I'm not at all afraid of PHP/Mapscript (although the documentation
is not great) or of Javascript, but the whole Linux world is just so
confusing that I get a form of paralysis by analysis soon after I start
trying to compare the different options. 

 

Anyway I will certainly take a look at Ubuntu / OpenSuse.

 

 

Chris

 

From: pcreso at pcreso.com [mailto:pcreso at pcreso.com] 
Sent: 10 June 2011 07:21
To: chris.green at ibstv.co.uk
Cc: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] upgrade Mapserver 5.4 to 6.0 (gulp!)

 


Hi Chris, 

I'm a Suse/Ubuntu user, in both cases totally because of the well supported
GIS related packages for these distros. So I have completely avoided the
issues are facing right now :-) Though I'd imagine it will not be long
before 6.0 is available natively for Fedora, given 5.6 is supported.

I'm not too familiar with the RH Linux family, but the OpenSuse Geo
repository partially supports Centos & RH4/5, and I have found the
maintainers there to be very helpful. If a RH or Centos build will be
compatible with Fedora, it would be worth asking around there. Mapserver is
not currently built for these distros, but someone may be prepared to do
this for you.

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Application:/Geo/

Personally, I'd suggest you switch to a distro that does what you want, & if
that includes well maintained & supported, pre-built mapserver (& related)
packages, Ubuntu & OpenSuse are well worth considering.

HTH,

  Brent Wood



--- On Fri, 6/10/11, Smith, Michael D ERDC-CRREL-NH
<michael.smith at usace.army.mil> wrote:


From: Smith, Michael D ERDC-CRREL-NH <michael.smith at usace.army.mil>
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] upgrade Mapserver 5.4 to 6.0 (gulp!)
To: "Chris Green" <chris.green at ibstv.co.uk>, "'Stephen Woodbridge'"
<woodbri at swoodbridge.com>, mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
Date: Friday, June 10, 2011, 3:31 AM

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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