MS4W 1.5.0 released

[Jeff McKenna]

Hello all,

A new version of MS4W is available for download 
(http://www.maptools.org/ms4w/index.phtml?page=downloads.html), which 
contains MapServer 4.8.3.

But a bigger announcement is that, with many many thanks to Howard 
Butler and his MapServer buildkit, this version of MS4W includes all 
mapscript flavours - CSharp, Java, Python, and PHP.  It also includes 
plugins for MrSID, Oracle 10i, and SDE 9.1 - but beware that these are 
not out-of-the box and require configuration as outlined in 
http://www.maptools.org/ms4w/index.phtml?page=README_INSTALL.html#c-gdal-ogr-plugins.

Please test away, especially the C/Java/Python mapscript communities, 
and report issues and suggestions to the MS4W bugzilla 
(http://bugzilla.maptools.org/).  And please use the MS4W mailing list 
for configuration issues/questions.

MapServer 4.8.3 changelog: 
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/download/current/HISTORY.TXT

MS4W history:

1.5.0 Notable changes are:
         - built with Hobu's MapServer buildkit (bug 1382)
         - added mapserver release of 4.8.3
         - added CSharp, Java, and Python mapscript
         - modified gdalplugin structure for MrSID, Oracle,
           and SDE plugins
         - removed mapserver 4.6.1 release from package
         - added shpdiff.exe utility (bug 1371)
         - fixed path in mapserv-utils readme (bug 1368)
         - add missing files in \proj\nad directory (bug 1385)
         - added plugin instructions for MrSID, Oracle, and
           SDE to README_INSTALL doc
         - added library versions used in MapServer build to
           README_INSTALL doc

(one shouldn't do this much work on a Saturday)

jeff


-- 
Jeff McKenna
DM Solutions Group Inc.
http://www.dmsolutions.ca