[mapguide-internals] mgos 2.1 state

[Zac Spitzer]

what?? Jackie you don't like manually figuring out all the
dependencies? that's half the fun!

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Jackie Ng <jumpinjackie at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Absolutely agreed. The Linux user story is quite woefully bad right now.
> Ideally we should have binary rpm and/or apt packages. Is creating
> distributable binaries that much more difficult in Linux?
>
> I still dream of the day I can go:
>
> sudo apt-get install mapguideopensource-x.y.z
>
> Instead of having to build from source and tremble in fear at gcc's cryptic
> compiler error messages :-)
>
> - Jackie
>
>
> zspitzer wrote:
>>
>> We really need to get the linux stuff going :) the current state is
>> terrible,
>> so many people have wasted so much time trying to build mapguide on
>> linux and failed, i think we have lost heaps of potential users because of
>> this
>>
>> It would really help if we move any updated build instructions over to the
>> mapguide wiki, rather than the osgeo wiki...
>>
>> anecdotally based on what i have seen on the mailing list, there seems to
>> be
>> a bigger demand for ubuntu than RHES/Centos
>>
>> z
>>
>> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Jason Birch <Jason.Birch at nanaimo.ca>
>> wrote:
>>> To my knowledge, 2.1 is no less stable than any previous version at this
>>> point, and is considerably improved in many areas.  If I was going to
>>> start on a new project I would absolutely be looking at 2.1.
>>>
>>> A few bug fixes have recently made it into 2.1 because of the delays in
>>> getting our installer put together, but those are just a bonus; 2.1 was
>>> feature-complete several months ago.
>>>
>>> Jason
>>> ________________________________________
>>> From: alucas
>>> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 10:54 AM
>>> To: mapguide-internals at lists.osgeo.org
>>> Subject: [mapguide-internals] mgos 2.1 state
>>>
>>> I'm planning a new project and i'm thinking in mgos 2.1. What's the state
>>> of
>>> this version? What are the bugs pending to
>>> solve?_______________________________________________
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>>
>>
>>
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