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

[Gerry Creager N5JXS]

Congratulations to all on the accomplishment.

Regards,
Gerry

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
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