[Mapserver-users] For MapScript + Zope users, ZMapServer 0.3

[Jean-Francois.Doyon at CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca]

Sean,

As a Zope and MapServer user, this is great news to me, unfortunately I
personally don't have time to play with this yet, and Pyton/MapScript isn't
rock solid enough yet for my needs, but I hope this effort is well received,
as it has a LOT of potential.

In fact I recall telling Dave at DM this would be a fantastic way to do things
:)

I take it when an object is created, the MapFile is loaded into a MapScript
MapObject, and this object is stored in Zope? (Since I see from the screen
shots there is an "export" function, suggesting the product doesn't interact
directly with a mapfile on the filesystem).

Now all I need is a rock solid, fully thread safe, non memory leaking
mapserver/python MapScript (Not that it leaks memory, I dunno, I'm just
saying, I'm not feeling confident about loading python mapscript into a long
running process just yet).

But I'm definitely going to have to look at this ... If this can be properly
integrated into the CMF, wow, You just solved a LOT of issues for us :)

Cheers,
J.F.

-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Gillies [mailto:sgillies at frii.com]
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 6:09 PM
To: Mapserver Users
Subject: [Mapserver-users] For MapScript + Zope users, ZMapServer 0.3


Greetings,

Those that downloaded the earlier release of ZMapServer and found
it at all interesting will want to see the newest release.  There
are Zope wrappers for the layer and class objects and better
methods for editing map, layer, and class properties through the
Zope management interface.  I've made the choice to build ZMapServer
on the development MapServer (3.7) and have dropped support for
3.6.  To complicate things a bit further, you'll either need to
download and build the most recent MapScript (one new function
in mapscript.i) from CVS or patch mapscript.i, adding the new method
cleanPens():

extend mapObj {
...
void cleanPens() {
   msClearPenValues(self);
}
...

The release, more info, and screenshots for those who haven't
access to a ZServer are available at:
http://www.frii.com/~sgillies/projects/zmapserver/

cheers,
Sean


--
Sean Gillies
sgillies at frii.com
http://www.frii.com/~sgillies

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