[ANNOUNCE] MapServer Console: AXL 2 Mapserver converter

[Umberto Nicoletti]

What do you mean by broken? On my Windows XP/Linux box it works just fine.

Anyway I will release a better packaged version next week.

Regards,
Umberto

On 11/11/05, Abe Gillespie <abe.gillespie at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm looking forward to giving this a try.  Unfortunately the
> downloadable archive (0.9) is broken.  Would you please fix this and
> let us know?
>
> Thanks.
> -Abe
>
> On 11/9/05, Umberto Nicoletti <umberto.nicoletti at gmail.com> wrote:
> > During the last month I have been working on a conversion program
> > called MapServer Console that strives to generates valid and working
> > mapserver .map files from AXL files.
> > The software is currently in beta* and is available from cvs and
> > through sourceforge.
> >
> > I haven't had a chance to try it on Windows yet so I cannot guarantee
> > that it will work reliably or at all on that platform. All other
> > UNIX-like platforms that can run Java at least 1.4 should present no
> > problems.
> >
> > The software is at the site:
> >
> > http://msconsole.sourceforge.net
> >
> > Notes for Windows users are on the download page:
> >
> > http://msconsole.sourceforge.net/?page_id=11
> >
> > And the feature list is here:
> >
> > http://msconsole.sourceforge.net/?page_id=7
> >
> > Please note that the site allows for anonymous comments, so you can
> > post your thoughts there, if relevant.
> >
> > The AXL files I usually work with are generated from Arc Explorer 9,
> > so the features available are limited. On the other hand customization
> > is very easy so new features will be supported with a reasonable
> > amount of work.
> >
> > I hope you enjoy it as much as I have done while writing it!
> > Umberto
> >
> > * I called this release a beta only because the number of supported
> > features is not complete, but in fact the sofwtare is very stable.
> >
>