[MapProxy] Mapproxy on Windows Server - some issues

[Peter.Jehle at tba.llv.li]

Hi all
First thank you for that great work

I run a test for mapproy an an windows server 2003 machine.
I installed the nightly version of mapproxy 1.1.0a
I tried different options of mapproxy. I have the following issues, that
I would like to post:

- I had to install the whole applicatiion on python 2.6 since I run in
problems with the watermark support of PIL respectivly I didn't find a
PIL version for python 2.7 which supports this.
-I also tried to install PIL1.1.7 fastpng, but the mingw32 compiler
crashes when compiling: Is their a win32-binary relaease of PIL with
fastpng support?
-I tried to use mapserver directly without going to  webserver on
localhost: when i tried to configure the mapserver option, the
yaml-parser reported an error. Is there a complete template where i can
find all config-options?
-  when I call WMS-images outside the bbox, I get a black margin in the
areas, where the image should be white or transparent (no content of the
ortho-image). Are there any settings to avoid this? I tried different
options on the WMS-Server and the mapproxy config  (transparent_color)
but I cant come loose of this black margins. (I had to use jpeg as image
format because png was to slow).


I hope this is understandable for you.
By the way, I have to say that I'm a beginner with python application,
so installing the envirenemt was quite hard work. 
Usefull for installung the whole environment is setuptools
(easy_installe.exe on win), which is desrcibes here:
http://packages.python.org/distribute/easy_install.html
I also run in a problem when trying to install python fastpng support: I
tried solving this according to
http://blog.eddsn.com/2010/05/unable-to-find-vcvarsall-bat/

Since may cache store is in a san, I had to install pywin32 and added
the following lines to my config.wsgi:

import win32com.client
wshnetwork = win32com.client.Dispatch('Wscript.Network')
wshnetwork.MapNetworkDrive('h:', '\\\\server\\share')




Regard's

Peter Jehle