[Live-demo] TinyOWS merging with UMN Mapserver

[Cameron Shorter]

Hi Pirmin (and others),
I'd be interested to hear you expand upon your thoughts.

I see there being compelling benefits achieved from merging Mapserver 
and TinyOWS documentation. When explaining complex technical concepts, 
it helps the reader to have the information presented as concisely and 
clearly as possible. "Less documentation gets read more".

A new user deciding whether to install MapServer or GeoServer is 
presented with "Install GeoServer and get WMS/WFS-T all in one package, 
or learn about/install to 2 packages, MapServer/TinyOWS to get the 
same." Only needing to install one package is more compelling.


On 01/02/14 03:42, Pirmin Kalberer wrote:
> Hi Cameron,
> I don't see the necessity or a benefit of merging.
> Pirmin Kalberer (mobile)
> http://sourcepole.ch
>
> Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> schrieb:
>
>> All,
>> I'd like to re-raise this question about whether we should merge TinyOWS
>> and UMN Mapserver. We do have a window of a week or so if we were to
>> update installers, and 2 weeks if we wish to update docs.
>>
>> At the very least, I suggest we should merge the two Project Overviews
>> and Quickstart docs.
>>
>> Steve, Pirmin, Alan, Olivier,
>> I'd be interested to hear your thoughts?
>>
>> On 30/07/2013 6:30 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>>> I'd be inclined to suggest that OSGeo-Live distribute MapServer Suite
>>> (as you describe below). But as we have reached feature freeze, we
>>> probably should wait until the next OSGeo-Live release before putting
>>> into place.
>>>
>>> On 29/07/13 22:49, Lime, Steve D (MNIT) wrote:
>>>> I'll ask this of the MapServer devs and report back. TinyOWS is part
>>>> of the project but is not tightly integrated and can be downloaded
>>>> separately. There's a MapServer Suite release that includes
>>>> MapServer, MapCache and TinyOWS but that's not what we're including
>>>> in Live-Demo.
>>>>
>>>> Steve
>>>>
>>>> ________________________________________
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>>>> [live-demo-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of Cameron Shorter
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>>>> Sent: Monday, July 29, 2013 3:40 AM
>>>> To: Pirmin Kalberer
>>>> Cc: Alan Boudreault; Steve Lime; live-demo at lists.osgeo.org
>>>> Subject: Re: [Live-demo] TinyOWS merging with UMN Mapserver
>>>>
>>>> On 29/07/13 17:23, Pirmin Kalberer wrote:
>>>>> Tinyows has the same "problem" as QGIS Server. It is now part of UMN
>>>>> Mapserver.
>>>> Pirmin (and others),
>>>> With TinyOWS incorporated into MapServer, I suspect that it would be
>>>> appropriate to extend the Mapserver Project Overview / Quickstart to
>>>> incorporate TinyOWS features, and discontinue the TinyOWS Project
>>>> Overview/Quickstart.
>>>>
>>>> Would that make sense? Or does TinyOWS still exist in its own right?
>>>>
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>>
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