[Geomoose-users] Fwd: MS4W version 4.0.0-beta1 available

[Dan Little]

Thanks Jeff! We may even have a fresh release before 4.0 comes out of beta!

This is fantastic work and I know a total slog. Thank you again!

On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 6:57 PM Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>
wrote:

> Forwarding this news item to the GeoMOOSE community, as the beta1
> installer loads GeoMOOSE 3.2.1 (and works great!)
>
> PS. I know GeoMoose no longer relies on it, but, I forgot to mention the
> noticeable performance improvements with PHP 7.  Give it a try in MS4W
> now..
>
> -jeff
>
>
>
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> Many Windows users will be very interested that MS4W-4.0.0-beta1 is
> available now, which will be a huge release of changes, as every library
> (over 200 now) has been upgraded and built with a new compiler (Visual
> Studio 2017), and contains many great additions overall.  You can test
> the beta at:
>
>   - installer:
> https://ms4w.com/release/experimental/ms4w-4.0.0-beta1-setup.exe
> (recommended)
>   - archive: https://ms4w.com/release/experimental/ms4w_4.0.0_beta1.zip
>
> Please see MS4W's HISTORY.txt for all of the changes, but here are some
> of the highlights:
>
>   - Mapbox Vector Tile output through MapServer (demo included)
>   - PHP7 mapscript support (using the SWIG API)
>   - usual mapscripts available (Java, Python, CSharp)
>   - embedded Python 3.7.0
>   - running pycsw Catalogue Server
>   - expanded ZOO-Project WPS support (all GDAL/OGR services, Python,
> PHP, CSharp, Java)
>   - new Matomo Analytics package
>   - simple map viewer on the localhost page
>   - GDAL 2.4.0
>   - MapServer 7.4.0-dev
>   - mod_wsgi for Apache
>   - and many more...
>
> You can see that MS4W-4.0.0 will be a full SDI for Windows environments,
> with ~40+ working mapfiles and over 1.7GB of files, empowering DevOps
> and organizations worldwide.  Also note that this is a major release for
> MS4W, meaning that some things have changed dramatically (PHPmapscript
> will now use the SWIG API for example), so please follow MS4W's README
> for specific instructions for the many plugins and mapscripts.
>
> When installing, it is very important that (if you are using the .zip)
> your server must have the C++ Redistributable installed on it
> beforehand: execute the local file /ms4w/tmp/vcredist_x86.exe
> (alternatively if you use MS4W's setup.exe installer this is done
> automatically)
>
> Please provide your 4.0.0 testing feedback through the MS4W tracker (so
> the feedback is not lost or forgotten): http://www.ms4w.com/trac/
>
> Thank you all for sharing your spatial information with MS4W.
>
>
> -jeff
>
>
> --
> Jeff McKenna
> MapServer Consulting and Training Services
> https://gatewaygeomatics.com/
>
>
>
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