[mapguide-users] Oracle 10g Standard

[Dejan Gregor]

Dear Gabriela,

thank you for your input and I totally agree with the lack of 'ripe'
installation instructions. At least I am happy I'm not alone here with
PostGIS and MGOS interoperability issues and that hopefully there will be a
working system architecture posted and presented soon on MGOS 2.x.

Dejan


On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 11:17, Gabriele Monfardini <gabrimonfa at gmail.com>wrote:

> The main problem here is that there is very few info about the correct
> version of the libraries used.
> This, combined with the very poor logging messages of both
> FDO/Mapguide very often lead to "Unspecified errors" or "Generic
> errors" when the wrong version of something is used.
>
> And the advices often consist in dropping some dlls here and there in
> order to find some unresolved symbols, which makes all things sound
> like an obscure art or a per-installation magic trick.
>
> In order for this to work reliably, we need full information regarding
> Postgres/Postgis version used (yes, even the last minor number),
> together with FDO and Postgis provider versions.
>
> Postgis provider support for Linux is, at best, lacking some care. OGR
> support is not enabled any more by default, AFAIK.
> Yes I can enable it and compile all again but compilation is difficult
> not to say too difficult.
> I think OGR provider should be enabled again by default, at least
> we'll have a fall-back.
>
> Btw we're using a Mapguide 1.2 on Debian GNU/Linux with Postgis
> connected through OGR Provider.
> We had to work hard in order to compile all the stuffs (and this is
> remarkably poor in a project that has Open Source in its name), but at
> least it works.
> We've not yet find a way to compile version 2.x. No significant steps
> have been made to ease compilation in GNU/Linux, even if version major
> number has been increased...
>
> Regards,
>
> Gabriele Monfardini
>
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 07:55, Dejan Gregor <dejan.gregor at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Wow,
> >
> > thanks Zac. I would be very happy to get information about it. I was
> forced
> > to use the 'production' version of MGOS 2.0.2 on Windows Server 2003
> > (32-bit), but not forced by any specific version of PostgreSQL 8.x.
> >
> > Hardly waiting to get the right working recipe for PosGIS :-)
> >
> > Dejan
> >
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