[mapserver-dev] MapScript PHP SDK and External Downloads

[Seth G]

Thanks for the reply Steve. The OSGeo server would make sense, although I guess there might be a chance also of adding/updating the GISInternals SDK at some stage. If Jeff has details on how to request file hosting on OSGeo server that would be great. 

Bindings for both Python and .NET are both still working with old and new versions of SWIG (although looking at the various fixes since the 1.3.39 release there have been lots of improvements for both languages). 

Seth

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On Fri, Oct 5, 2018, at 5:45 PM, Lime, Steve D (MNIT) wrote:
> 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.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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