[mapserver-users] what version of mapserver is installed?

[Toni Hernández]

hello everybody!!!
Is there anyway to know what version of mapserver is installed in one
computer?

Thanks in advance

----- Original Message -----
From: "James Macgill" <j.macgill at geography.leeds.ac.uk>
To: <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 12:58 PM
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Java - Mapserver


> At 14:16 30/08/2002 -0400, Dave McIlhagga wrote:
> Hi, first off I should say that as one of the lead developers on GeoTools
> my opinions may be biased ;-)
>
> >I'm not sure that GeoTools can quite replace everything that MapServer
has
> >to offer.  For one thing, there is a heavy reliance on client-side java
> >which is not an option for many (if not most?) MapServer
users/developers.
>
> What you say is absolutely right for the first version of GeoTools (now
> known as GT1) which used Java1.1 only code and was targeted directly at
> clients.  However, for the last 8 months or so we have started from a
clean
> slate and developed a new version of GeoTools (GT2) using Java1.4 which is
> aimed far more at the server side than the old code base.  GT2 follows the
> OGC specs where possible and builds on the excellent Java Topology Suite.
>
> In fact, we have just put up a first implementation of the WMS spec with
> support for the new Styled Layer Descriptors from the OGC.  It's still a
> little slow at the moment but SLD does allow for very good control over
the
> appearance of map features.
>
> The WMS currently supports Shapefiles and PostGIS (MIF/MID and GML should
> be easy to add as there are datasource implementations in GT2).  Right now
> we are working on improving performance, checking conformance (it works ok
> with the cubewerx client) and developing a configuration script (something
> like the map files in mapserver but in XML)
>
> If you're interested, I can send you the .war file to play with or provide
> details for obtaining the whole GT2 codebase.
>
> All the best
>
> James
>
> --
> James Macgill
> Center for Computational Geography
> Spell Checker (c) Creative Spelling inc (aka my dyslexic brain)
> http://www.geotools.org  the open source java mapping toolkit.
>
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