[mapserver-users] Edit database attribute

[E Perik]

Hi Puneet and others,

Thanks for the input, and yes you are right Puneet that it's not a
client/server solution I am looking for and also that I was hoping some
other suggestions ;-)

It's not that that I don't trust others ;-), but I don't see Microsoft
as Open Source shipper either. 

I am a true believer in Open Source, but giving it all away is like
letting the competition.....

Lowell's suggestion of perl2exe is I nice one. My code is mostly
mapscript, so I can see an advantage in that. Using PHP at the moment,
but theoretically all could be changed to Perl.

The basic idea of the Viewer/Editor is to show a simple map with
streets, houses and for instance tree's. Zooming and selecting a tree to
edit it's value's is the only functionality it should need. It will be
used by someone from another company to edit the tree's attributes in
the field.

Besides ESRI's MapObjects there is also GeoObjects from BlueMarbleGeo.
Did not see any comments regarding editing attributes, so sent them a
mail regarding that just now. MapObjects should be possible to do it,
but I did not see it being mentioned in any tutorial or help-file (yet).

The advantage of MapObjects and GeoObjects is that a program does not
need a webserver and scripting language's. Mapserver and mapscript are
capable of doing just what I intend to do and have that working fine,
but am looking for a single-application solution.

Thanks,

Erwin



-----Original Message-----
From: Puneet Kishor [mailto:pkishor at geoanalytics.com] 
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 3:05 PM
To: Lowell Filak; E Perik; Steffen Macke
Cc: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Edit database attribute

I didn't respond further because Erwin wanted "other" suggestions ;-)

but, now I will chip in some... there are other compiler options besides

perl2exe, though that might be sufficient. I like indigostar... they 
gave me a headache-free mod_perl, Apache, install for my Windoze box.

that said, I am confused about protecting the source code... the source 
code runs on the server, so no one has access to it anyway. I mean, you 
can't just give away server scripts to folks without expecting them to 
have the server pieces (web server, scripting engine, db drivers, et al)

in place.

I think Erwin is specifically interested in some, packageable binary 
that he can give away to others, and not in a client/server solution. 
Right Erwin?

pk/





On Monday, May 6, 2002, at 08:00  AM, Lowell Filak wrote:

> If my take on your reply is correct, you would like to protect your 
> source code.? Have you checked into Perl2Exe by www.indigostar.com?
> I've never used it but if it works then that problem is solved. They 
> have a free trial version available (I see from their ad).
> Lowell F.
>
> The following message was sent by "E Perik" <erwin at perik.nu> on Sun, 5

> May 2002 16:18:41 +0200.
>
>> Thanks Puneet and Steffen,
>>
>> as you both state 'standard' mapserver + mapscript could easily do
the
>> trick. 'Problem' in this case is, if someone else needs to edit the 
>> data
>> the have the complete 'source' in their hands. If this could be
>> 'secured' or 'encrypted' I would be helped out at first, but no clue
as
>> how to do that.
>> [..]