[mapserver-users] What is the best way to test development versions on Windows?

[Donald Kerr]

It would be good if Jeff McKenna could keep MS4W up to date but I realise
that it's a lot of work and Jeff deserves financial compensation for doing
so. It does seem to have lagged behind for some time now. For me, it's
important in that it's a Windows version that some, including me, used as
their introduction to MapServer. I feel that, with it lagging behind too
much, it may push people in another direction which would be a shame for the
MapServer project as a whole.

Regards,

Donald


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From: mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Rahkonen Jukka
(Tike)
Sent: 13 February 2014 15:05
To: Mapserver-Users (mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org)
Subject: [mapserver-users] What is the best way to test development versions
on Windows?

Hi,

I would like to test the new dynamic heatmaps
http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-108.html but I am on Windows and
Mapserver project is not extremely Windows friendly nowadays. Ideal for
users like me would be to have for example weekly builds which could be
installed like MS4W - unzip and run. But we don't have such builds and MS4W
lags so much behind that curious users need to use something else.

What I have done sometimes is to make a basic install with MS4W and then
download fresh development binaries from gisinternals. By copying
mapserv.exe and GDAL dll files into ms4w\apache\cgi-bin it is usually
possible to make the new Mapserver dev version to run. However, the result
is often unstable and some strange things happen.  Probably I have then
something incompatible in GDAL directories of MS4W and I should copy some
more files. Is it even theoretically possible to update MS4W reliably in
this way?
 
Another alternative is obviously to use OSGeo4W installer. However, I feel
it is a somewhat odd creature which installs this and that even I would only
like to test Mapserver. I seem to have about 1 GB on disk while MS4W is
perhaps 200 MB.  It is also impossible to know what all OSGeo4W installer is
updating when is installs a new nightly build of Mapserver so I think it is
necessary to make a backup copy of the whole OSGeo4W directory if there
happens to be a need to go back to yesterday's version.

What other Windows users and developers consider as a best way to stay close
to the cutting edge? Other than to start using Linux, I mean.

-Jukka Rahkonen-
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