[Mapserver-users] MapServer passes 82/83 tests of the OGC WMS testsuite

[Daniel Morissette]

Hi,

I thought you might be interested to hear that MapServer 4.1 (current 
development version) has passed 82 out of 83 tests of the OGC WMS test 
suite. This is the version of the software that should be released early 
next year as version 4.2.

The test that we don't pass is one related to producing an image with 
non-square pixels, or in other words producing a map image where the 
width/height ratio in pixels doesn't match the dx/dy ratio in geographic 
coordinates. This is something most clients won't try to request anyway 
so it's not that big a deal. The current version of MapServer can only 
produce map images where the x-scale and y-scale are equal.  We've 
started looking at fixing this with Steve way back when, but that would 
affect quite a bit of code and we never ended up making the required 
changes.

We may have to tackle that one if we decide to go after official 
certification, but for now we know that we pass all the tests except 
one, and that's the most important think.

Daniel
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  Daniel Morissette               morissette at dmsolutions.ca
  DM Solutions Group              http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
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