[mapserver-users] why 5.0.3 on latest linux distro's

[Christy Nieman]

In my experiences with Fedora, they tend to keep the same version of 
MapServer that the OS version was released with (so Fedora 9 has 5.0.2, 
or something like that, by default).  As I want to use the latest 
version, I build it for myself.  I bet that distributions tend to stay 
with what they had when first released for map compatibility reasons.  
It would be something to discuss with your distributions package 
maintainers.

Christy

Willy-Bas Loos wrote:
> wait,
>
> osgeo4w has 5.0.2 (http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/wiki/pkg-mapserver) 
> (like debian and ubuntu)
> but ms4w has 5.2.0 (http://www.maptools.org/ms4w/index.phtml)
> fedora 10 will have 5.2.0 
> (http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=4354)
>
> seems to me that the changelog shows enough reasons to use 5.2 instead 
> of 5.0, although major and minor things get mixed up in all this text.
> it would be nice to be able to see what the major improvements are, 
> maybe add a little overview of the major stuff at the top?
> (http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/browser/tags/rel-5-2-0/mapserver/HISTORY.TXT)
>
> Anyways, i still don't understand what is keeping people from using 
> the latest version.
> Is there some dependency in the way?
>
> cheers,
>
> WBL
>
>
>     Why do debian lenny and ubuntu 8.10 only have mapserver 5.0.3 in
>     their package lists?
>     MS4W has 5.2.0, this is feeling all wrong!
>
>
>
>
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