MapServer 5.0.0 released!

[Nolte, Tim]

Firstly, thanks for all of the excellent work on MapServer! The availability of a quality package to the community is something not to be taken lightly. One question I have about this final release is in direct response to your statement, "Equally important is that using AGG results in a minimal reduction in performance.". I guess I'm really wondering how you are quantifying that? My hope is that this final release of 5.0.0 has additional performance updates for using AGG. I've struggled with some performance issues on our current MapServer and finally had to move back to using GD because of the performance difference. I had a layer that rendered in about 14 secs via AGG but then only 3 secs via GD. This really ended up being the deal breaker for using AGG. I'll be looking over the 5.0 migration guide to see if there are some tips there that will help with performance. I'd love to be able to go back to using AGG as I prefer the quality of the maps.

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Timothy J Nolte - tnolte at ilpcs.com
Associate Network Planning Engineer

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Kentwood, MI 49512

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