[mapserver-dev] MapScript PHP SDK and External Downloads

[Lime, Steve D (MNIT)]

1. If possible not being dependent on a user's infrastructure would be best. I'd think we could host them at http://download.osgeo.org/mapserver/ although I'm not sure what hoops we have to jump through to get access, Jeff would know.

2. I don't think we need full backwards compatibility. Swig 3 has been around since 2014 and IMHO that should be our target.

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From: mapserver-dev [mailto:mapserver-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Seth G
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2018 4:26 PM
To: mapserver-dev at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [mapserver-dev] MapScript PHP SDK and External Downloads

Hi devs,

I have a few questions it would be good to get some input on relating to ongoing work to update various MapScripts. 

1. Is there a procedure for downloading external files to the CI machines (in this case Appveyor)? The new PHP bindings generated using SWIG require a custom build of the PHP SDK on Windows - see https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/pull/5642
In order to reduce build times I think the best approach is to build these once, and download the outputs as part of the build - the same way MapServer and MapCache currently download the SDK from GISInternals. AlexanderGabriel has offered to build these and put them on his server. Is this ok? Or could this file perhaps be hosted on OSGeo infrastructure?

2. Should MapServer try to remain fully backwards compatible with older versions of SWIG? I have updated the CSharp bindings to work with new versions - see https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/pull/5583 - this also works with 1.3.39. Python3 however fails to build without a later version of SWIG. Does the MapServer project recommend "official" minimum versions?

If anyone has any suggestions or concerns on the above 2 pull requests please add some comments, otherwise I'll look at merging these both to master.

Regards,

Seth

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