[geomoose-psc] Ubuntu 16.04/PHP MapScript

[Jim Klassen]

Not that it is surprising, but the rest of GeoMoose (non PHP) builds and
runs fine on 16.04. 

There are multiple issues with our php code and PHP 7 unrelated to
mapscript.

On 06/01/2016 02:59 PM, TC Haddad wrote:
>
> This had been discussed in several Mapserver threads since December:
>
> https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-users/2016-February/078689.html
>
> https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/issues/5252
>
> https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-dev/2016-April/014830.html
>
> I think many folks are worried about it, but there has not yet been
> enough of a groundswell to plan around a fix (code sprint?) for
> tackling the issue.
>
> I'd suggest that before figuring out a GeoMoose solution, we nudge the
> larger Mapserver community towards a decision so that we don't go off
> on too much of a tangent...
>
> T
>
> On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Dan Little <theduckylittle at gmail.com
> <mailto:theduckylittle at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     For (c) to be viable, we'd need to write a parser for Mapfiles and
>     'port' all the data drivers to PHP.
>
>     On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 1:19 PM, James Klassen
>     <klassen.js at gmail.com <mailto:klassen.js at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > (c) Stay PHP but find a way around Mapscript.
>     >
>     > On Jun 1, 2016 13:19, "Dan Little" <theduckylittle at gmail.com
>     <mailto:theduckylittle at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     >>
>     >> Well, that's sorta terminal unless we :
>     >>
>     >> (a) Take the time to rewrite the services in another language.
>     This is
>     >> probably the quickest/cheapest solution.
>     >> (b) Fix PHP Mapscript for PHP 7.
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>
>     >> On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Jim Klassen
>     <klassen.js at gmail.com <mailto:klassen.js at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     >> > It looks like PHP Mapscript is missing from Ubuntu 16.04
>     because it
>     >> > didn't (doesn't?) build with PHP 7 at release time.
>     >> >
>     >> > This means that GeoMoose as is cannot run on the next
>     OSGeoLive which is
>     >> > based on lubuntu 16.04.  I am not sure what this means for
>     the long term
>     >> > viability of PHP Mapscript.
>     >> >
>     >> > I'm not sure what to think about this in terms of action
>     plan, but
>     >> > getting kicked off of OSGeo Live because of dependencies
>     seems like a
>     >> > "bad thing".
>     >> >
>     >> > Thoughts?
>     >> >
>     >> > https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive/pull/110
>     >> >
>     >> > Jim
>     >> >
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