[Mapbender-dev] ms4w and Mapbender - provide some information about Mapbender

[Jeff McKenna]

Also note:  you can ignore my mention of 'restructured text' - just send 
me a txt file(s) and I can convert the notes to whatever format easily :)

thanks,

-jeff



On 2017-08-12 11:29 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> Also, if you need anything updated before FOSS4G (why not, great to 
> announce this in Boston!) please send it to me this weekend and I will 
> add it - but try to do that before Monday, as the FOSS4G chaos begins ha!
> 
> -jeff
> 
> 
> 
> On 2017-08-12 11:24 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
>> Hi Astrid,
>>
>> Comments inline below:
>>
>> On 2017-08-11 3:28 AM, Astrid Emde wrote:
>>> Hello Jeff,
>>>
>>> I had a workshop wit ms4w and mapbender this week.
>>>
>>> Worked fine.
>>
>> Great! thanks for this feedback, I am glad it worked for you.
>>
>>>
>>> I only ran into trouble when we wanted to update Mapbender and run he 
>>> app/console commands which seams not to be possible with php fcgi.
>>>
>>> We downloaded php in the end and used the php.exe to rund the 
>>> app/console commands.
>>
>> It would be very helpful to me if you could file an MS4W ticket and 
>> state the exact commands and the problems that you had, and then I can 
>> fix that for the next release.  Please file the ticket at 
>> http://ms4w.com/trac
>>
>>>
>>> Now the question is:
>>> 1. can we provide a description at ms4w page somewhere? Or did I miss 
>>> this page?
>>> http://www.ms4w.com/README_INSTALL.html#
>>
>>
>> Yes of course.  You can see a list of the applications at 
>> http://www.ms4w.com/README_INSTALL.html#ms4w-applications but if you 
>> want more details added, please send me the notes in Restructured Text 
>> format (.txt) and I will add it to that README (so it will be visible 
>> both online, and included in each installation).
>>
>>> 2. Can we provide a text-file in the download package to provide 
>>> important information?
>>
>> yes, definitely.  A normal .txt file is perfect.  I will include that 
>> in the Mapbender3 package.
>>
>>>
>>> 3. Can we provide information about Mapbender3 here?
>>> http://www.ms4w.com/download.html
>>>
>>
>> yes, maybe your questions 1) and 3) can be combined: provide me a 
>> restructured text file containing Mapbender3 notes, and I can point to 
>> that inside the README, and also point to it on the download page.  Is 
>> that ok?
>>
>>> ms4w makes it easy to use Mapbender and get it running. But if you 
>>> want more complex features (new database, search, digitizer, your own 
>>> template) you will need some background information.
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Agreed. Let me know how to proceed.
>>
>> thanks for this momentum! :)
>>
>> -jeff
>>
>>
>>
>>
> 
> 


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