[ANNOUNCE] MapServer Console: AXL 2 Mapserver converter

[Abe Gillespie]

Well, I just tried it in Windows and it extracted fine.  Before I was
working in Ubuntu Linux and I was getting some error during
extraction.

-Abe

On 11/14/05, Umberto Nicoletti <umberto.nicoletti at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
> > >
> >
>