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

[Daniel Morissette]

Oh, BTW, Kudos to Assefa and Normand for their great work on this!

I snet the announcement but they did all the work!  :)

Daniel


Daniel Morissette wrote:
> 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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