[mapserver-commits] r12971 - trunk/docs/en/installation

Wed Jan 4 16:14:31 EST 2012

Author: hobu
Date: 2012-01-04 13:14:31 -0800 (Wed, 04 Jan 2012)
New Revision: 12971

Modified:
   trunk/docs/en/installation/unix.txt
Log:
some additions to the unix compilation doc.  This probably needs some signficant rework from tbonfort now due to libtool and MapCache, etc

Modified: trunk/docs/en/installation/unix.txt
===================================================================

--- trunk/docs/en/installation/unix.txt	2012-01-04 18:58:20 UTC (rev 12970)
+++ trunk/docs/en/installation/unix.txt	2012-01-04 21:14:31 UTC (rev 12971)
@@ -75,8 +75,13 @@
   42 different raster formats.
 * `AGG <http://antigrain.com>`__: AGG (Anti-Grain Geometry) is an optional
   dependency to enable high quality antialiased output for vector data.
-  Currently versions 2.4 and 2.5 are identical featurewise, and only vary in
-  their licence (2.4 is BSD, 2.5 is GPL)
+  Currently versions 2.4 and 2.5 are identical feature-wise, and only vary in
+  their license (2.4 is BSD, 2.5 is GPL)
+  
+  .. note::
+  
+        MapServer 5.6+ embeds AGG in its source tree and you do not need to 
+        install it separately.
 
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Optional External Libraries
@@ -84,23 +89,42 @@
 
 * `libtiff <http://www.libtiff.org/>`__: libtiff provides TIFF 
   (Tagged Image File Format) reading support to MapServer.
+  
+  .. warning::
+        
+        Direct libtiff support is deprecated in MapServer 5.8+, and you should 
+        now depend on GDAL for raster read support in MapServer.
     
 * `libgeotiff <http://trac.osgeo.org/geotiff/>`__ 
   libgeotiff provides support to read GeoTIFF files (TIFF files with 
   geographic referencing).
+
+  .. warning::
+        
+        Direct GeoTIFF support is deprecated in MapServer 5.8+, and you should 
+        now depend on GDAL for raster read support in MapServer.
   
 * `libjpeg <http://www.ijg.org/>`__: libjpeg allows MapServer to render 
   images in JPEG format.  A sufficient version should be installed by 
   default on your system.  Version 6b is the current version and dates back to 
   1998.
+
+  .. warning::
+        
+        Direct JPEG support is deprecated in MapServer 5.8+, and you should 
+        now depend on GDAL for raster read support in MapServer.
   
 * `GEOS <http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/>`__: GEOS allows MapServer to do 
   spatial predicate and algebra operations (within, touches, etc & union, 
-  difference, intersection). Requires version 4.10 or greater.
+  difference, intersection). 
+
+  .. versionadded:: 4.10
   
 * `libxml <http://xmlsoft.org>`__: libxml is required to use :ref:`OGC SOS <sos_server>` 
-  support in MapServer (versions 4.10 and greater).
+  support in MapServer 
   
+  .. versionadded:: 4.10
+  
 * `SDE Client Library <http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcsde/index.html>`__: 
   The client libraries for your platform should be part of the ArcSDE 
   media kit.  They are *not* publicly available for download.
@@ -249,17 +273,15 @@
 Anti-Grain Geometry Support
 =============================================================================
 Since version 5.0 MapServer supports the AGG rendering backend.
-Download the 2.4 tarball from the antigrain website and just type make in
-the root directory. If you intend on using mapscript, you must beforehand 
-tweak the agg makefile to add -fPIC to the compiler options.
+MapServer 5.6+ embeds it directly in the source tree and you do not have to 
+do anything special to have support for it.
 
 =============================================================================
  OGC Support
 =============================================================================
 MapServer provides support for many `OGC <http://www.opengeospatial.org>`__ 
-specifications.  At 4.2.3, it provides support for WMS (Web Mapping Service), 
-SLD (Styled Layer Descriptor), WFS (Web Feature Service), and experimental 
-support for WCS (Web Coverage Service).
+specifications.  At 4.2.3, it provides support for WMS (:ref:`wms_server`), 
+SLD (:ref:`sld`), WFS (:ref:`wfs_server`), and WCS (:ref:`wcs_server`).
 
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  WMS support
@@ -280,8 +302,7 @@
 If, for some reason you DON'T want WMS support, you can force it off 
 by passing "--without-wms" to your configure script.  
 
-More information on using this feature is available in the WMS Server 
-HOWTO available on the MapServer website.
+More information on using this feature is available in :ref:`wms_server`.
 
 WMS Client
 -------------------
@@ -304,8 +325,7 @@
 Note that this feature is disabled by default, you have to 
 specifically request it.
 
-More information on using this feature is available in the 
-WMS Client HOWTO available on the MapServer website.
+More information on using this feature is available in :ref:`wms_client`.
 
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  WFS support
@@ -327,8 +347,8 @@
 Note that this feature is disabled by default, you have to 
 specifically request it.
 
-More information on using this feature is available in the 
-WFS Server HOWTO available on the MapServer website.
+More information on using this feature is available in 
+:ref:`wfs_server`.
 
 WFS Client
 -------------------
@@ -341,7 +361,7 @@
 "--with-wfsclient" option to your configure script. MapServer will automatically 
 look for libcurl, which is also required.
 
-To verify that the WFS Client feature is enabled, check the output 
+To verify that the :ref:`wfs_client` feature is enabled, check the output 
 from the configure script:
 
 ::
@@ -352,8 +372,7 @@
 Note that this feature is disabled by default, you have to specifically 
 request it.
 
-More information on using this feature is available in the WFS Client 
-HOWTO available on the MapServer website.
+More information on using this feature is available in :ref:`wfs_client`.
 
 =============================================================================
  Spatial Warehousing
@@ -388,7 +407,7 @@
  ArcSDE
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 MapServer allows you to use SDE as a data source both for geometry and 
-attributes. In order to achieve this, you must have the SDE client librairies 
+attributes. In order to achieve this, you must have the SDE client libraries 
 at your disposition, and have them installed on the machine running MapServer.
 
 In order to enable SDE support in MapServer, you have to compile it 

