[Live-demo] [OSGeo] #1717: GeoMoose fails to start in Xenial due to PHP7

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#1717: GeoMoose fails to start in Xenial due to PHP7
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 Reporter:  kalxas   |       Owner:  live-demo@…
     Type:  defect   |      Status:  new
 Priority:  blocker  |   Milestone:  OSGeoLive10.0
Component:  LiveDVD  |  Resolution:
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Comment (by jimk):

 This discussion has aready started in our pull request to update to
 GeoMoose 2.9 https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive/pull/110

 In discussing with other members of the GeoMoose project, we could
 reasonably update our PHP code to work with PHP 7, but the lack of PHP
 !MapScript is a complete show stopper.

 We are looking at moving from PHP and !MapScript in the future in favor of
 using a more OGC service centric approach, but that development effort is
 a year out at best.  And redeveloping our entire demo service stack in a
 different language or not using !MapScript would be a significant effort
 and cause unacceptable API breakage in the short term.
 team
 So barring other breakthroughs, the answer from the GeoMoose project is
 for the reasonable future we depend on !MapScript.  I see two potential
 paths forward:

 1. !MapScript is updated to work with PHP 7 in a way that doesn't
 significantly change the API.
 2. PHP 5 along with !MapScript is installed from PPA next to or instead of
 PHP 7 on OSGeoLive

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1717#comment:1>
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