[mapserver-users] Mapscript/Java/Servlet users: give this a whirl...

[C F]

You are right... sorry.  I shouldn't have said "limitations".  What I meant 
to say was that PHP mapscript requirements were too restricting for me.  I 
don't remember all the versions, etc.  but basically my issue had to do with 
the version of PHP required (in ms 3.5) and the fact that it required PHP to 
execute in CGI mode versus Apache module.  So I guess it's more my 
requirements or desires that limit my choices. It's true that I couldn't get 
it to work on Cygwin and was a little discouraged by the lack of response to 
my query regarding that.... but that wasn't the deciding factor for me.  
Anyway, I might go back to PHP Mapscript as it appears it's the most popular 
choice among Mapserver developers.. and I'm sure there's a good reason for 
that.  I guess it was just wishfull thinking that there would be no issues 
with the Java option :)


>From: Daniel Morissette <morissette at dmsolutions.ca>
>To: C F <gis_consultant at hotmail.com>
>CC: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
>Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Mapscript/Java/Servlet users: give this a 
>whirl...
>Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 10:43:06 -0400
>
>C F wrote:
> >
> > Unless I can play around with thread management in JBoss, I'm about 
>ready to
> > give up too.  What other options are there?  I gave up on PHP Mapscript
> > because of some of the limitations there... now I've spent a week on 
>Java.
> > What else is there?
>
>CF,
>
>Could you please be more specific on the PHP MapScript limitations that
>you are referring to?  If they are never filed as bugs, then these
>limitations will likely never be addressed.
>
>BTW, are we really talking about limitations in features of the
>software, or about bugs or issues compiling on unusual configurations
>like the Cygwin+Postgis build problems that you had earlier?
>
>
> > Maybe I should writing the group and asking about Perl
> > issues/limitations before trying that...
>
>Except for a few little exceptions, PHP MapScript should be as complete
>(and sometimes offers more) as the Perl, Tcl, Python, and other flavours
>of MapScript so if you ran into limitations with the PHP version then
>you are likely to encounter the same with the other flavours of
>MapScript.
>
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>  Daniel Morissette               morissette at dmsolutions.ca
>  DM Solutions Group              http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
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