[mapserver-dev] Next release: 5.6 or 6.0...

[Steve Lime]

I'll let you (and others) add planned features to the roadmap... ;-)

>>> On 7/14/2009 at 9:45 AM, in message <4A5C9A0C.2000708 at mapgears.com>, Daniel
Morissette <dmorissette at mapgears.com> wrote:
> Steve Lime wrote:
>> Just trying to clean up loose ends. There was a short-lived thread on the 
> topic some weeks
>> ago with little conclusion. Thomas made the point that the rendering plugin 
> will not be ready
>> by the fall and he proposed an interim 5.6 release. A 5.6 could still have 
> some nice additions:
>> 
>>   - single pass queries
>>   - repeating labels
>>   - SVG symbols
>>   - experimental renderer plugin support for Cairo
>>   - etc...
>> 
>> Are folks on board with that?  I've already created a 5.6 milestone in Trac 
> just in case and will
>> setup a road map page as well.
>> 
> 
> I'm also fine with a 5.6 release before FOSS4G and before the rendering 
> overhaul.
> 
> (Note: another new feature not in your list that's completed in trunk is 
> the enhanced support for output resolution, RFC 55)
> 
> Daniel