[mapserver-dev] Re: Please help tweak and test Mapserver on the FOSS4G DVD

[Jeff McKenna]

I also have some comments inline below:

Daniel Morissette wrote:
> Steve Lime wrote:
>> A quick look and the script seems reasonable just to get the CGI 
>> installed. Can't do much without
>> a demo though so that would seem a reasonable addition at a minimum. 
>> The debian folks were
>> going to package the stock demo but I'm not sure where that stands. 
>> Maybe the other devs might
>> have an idea.
>>
>> Now I'll just wait a couple of days to download the VM pieces... ;-)
>>
> 
> Steve, Cameron,
> 
> Sorry for the late response, I just came back from vacation.
> 
> I can ask Alan to help with the packaging. He may just need some 
> guidance on what we want to include.
> 
> Here are a few questions to get started:
> 
> 1- Does the FOSS4G DVD already pull packages from the UbuntuGIS 
> repository? It would be our intention to use UbuntuGIS packages instead 
> of the stock Ubuntu packages since they are more up to date. Is that a 
> problem?
> 
> 2- What do we want to include? Here is a suggestion:
> 
>   - cgi-mapserver
>   - Itasca demo (Steve: where is the most current version for v5.4?)

http://maps.dnr.state.mn.us/mapserver_demos/workshop-5.4.zip

>   - PHP MapScript
>   - GMap PHP demo

Note that the GMap demo does not work with the current PHP version (5.3.0).

Others:

- shp2img and mapserv utilities in the user's PATH
- gdal/ogr utilities in user's PATH
- proj utilities in user's PATH

> 
> 3- For the docs, we could possibly just include the Sphinx-generated PDF 
> for v5.4 but that's not very user-friendly. A better option would 
> probably be to package a snapshot of the website docs and include that 
> on the DVD. Any preference?
> 

I like that idea for docs.  Cameron let me know and I can upload an 
archive of the docs in html format, as Daniel suggests.

-jeff


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Jeff McKenna
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