[mapguide-internals] Supporting PHP 5.3

[Trevor Wekel]

Hmm... Now that brings up another question.  I was hoping to bundle the Sheboygan sample app and data in the installers for the MapGuide 2.2 release.  The sample code is LGPL so that's not a problem.  Does the same apply for the sample data?

I took a quick look at a couple of the devguide sample scripts.  They are also LGPL.  I'm guessing the same goes for the data???

As for replacing the devguide, is it 114 pages long and governed by the Creative Commons license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/legalcode.  This license is really wordy and we may need to get a legal opinion on what we can do with it.  Assuming we can translate it into another from and stick it in the Perforce, it could take someone over a month to do the translation assuming they do it by hand at 4 pages per day.  Ouch. 

A rich set of project maintained data capable of being loaded into a variety of FDO providers along with some cool apps would be a great addition to the project.  Being a Canadian who is still smiling from the Golden Olympics, Geobase.ca might be a good place to start.  The roads network seems to cover most of Canada and they also have some satellite imagery.

I've also been thinking about how we could enhance the automated testing.  Our build environment could easily be extended to a build + test environment which includes a variety of databases, WMS servers, etc.  Having a rich data set with some decent maps would be a necessary first step.

Regards,
Trevor


-----Original Message-----
From: mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jason Birch
Sent: March 20, 2010 3:21 PM
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Subject: Re: [mapguide-internals] Supporting PHP 5.3

Yeah, the devguide and code is pretty ambiguous on rights, and unmaintainable.

Do we need to start looking at more comprehensive project-maintained
documentation and sample data post-2.2?

Data is getting easier to obtain these days with the various open data
initiatives :)

Jason

On 2010-03-20, Jackie Ng <jumpinjackie at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I can double check the devguide samples, but I can't do much about the
> devguide document itself. The devguide document source is not in svn.
>
> Any other samples I can't do anything about because they are not in svn, and
> am not sure about the copyright on these samples.
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> - Jackie
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