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

[Doug Cates]

Daniel,

Well done. This is great news. Congratulations to all involved.

Doug

On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 12:08, Daniel Morissette wrote:
> 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
>