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

[Dan Little]

I'm betting we could get the GeoMOOSE demo on the CD relatively easily... it's also PHP based.


----- Original Message ----
> From: Daniel Morissette <dmorissette at mapgears.com>
> To: MapServer Dev Mailing List <mapserver-dev at lists.osgeo.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 2:47:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [mapserver-dev] Re: Please help tweak and test Mapserver on the FOSS4G DVD
> 
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [mapserver-dev] Re: Please help tweak and test Mapserver on the 
> FOSS4G DVD
> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:44:07 +1000
> From: Cameron Shorter 
> To: Jeff McKenna 
> CC: mapserver-dev at lists.osgeo.org, cameron.shorter at lisasoft.com, 
> "live-demo at lists.osgeo.org" , Steve Lime 
> ,  Daniel Morissette , 
> Volker Mische 
> 
> Daniel,
> Please forward to the mapserver-dev list as I'm not subscribed.
> 
> A few wiki pages which will be useful for you:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc#Wiki_pages
> 
> More answers inline:
> 
> Jeff McKenna wrote:
> > 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?
> Yes, pulling down packages from Ubuntu is the prefered option for
> installing.
> 
> >> 
> >> 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.
> HTML docs would be the preference.
> 
> If you have docs which are already bundled inside one of your .deb
> installers, then just include the "apt-get install mapserver-docs"
> inside your gisvm/trunk/bin/install-mapserver.sh script.
> 
> We are also looking for a:
> * 1 line description of your project
> * 1 page description explaining to a new user how to use mapserver on
> the DVD, as per: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GISVM_Build#Writing_docs
> 
> 
> -- Cameron Shorter
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