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

[Willy-Bas Loos]

oh they've got a package for linux too, that's great!
hm, they even included some sort of package manager.
i'll go check it out. This looks like it could be a great help - it's not
nice to have to compile all that from code.

thanks!

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Christy Nieman <cnieman at dmsolutions.ca>wrote:

>  There is the FGS installer package (http://maptools.org/fgs/) for Linux.
> But it's still using version 5.0.2, as far as I know.
>
> Christy
>
> Willy-Bas Loos wrote:
>
> exactly.
> i built my own 5.2.0 too. But i'm not a system admin really and it's a bit
> of a hassle. If i were planning to compile my software myself i would use a
> different distro (Gentoo?).
> I've been posting some stuff on the ubuntu forums too, but i don't get too
> much response there.
> I guess that 5.2.0 doesn't get into lenny (and so ubuntu 8.10) because it
> hasn't been tested for long enough. It is still in the "experimental"
> repository (thanks nico mandery for pointing this out to me), so not even
> in "unstable" yet.
> And that will probably mean that we won't see any higher than 5.0.x in
> lenny - the stable debian versions for the next ±4 years. I know it's a
> choice for stability and security -- all about priorities, so nothing to
> make a fuss about -- but it's unconfortable nonetheless.
>
> So lets try a different angle: if OSGeo are providing a package manager for
> windows (osgeo4w), why not provide a repository for Debian / Ubuntu and
> another one for RedHat / Fedora ?
> Easy for me to say of course, but doesn't it seem unfair that Windows
> should be favoured above open source OS's ?
> (then, maybe i got it all wrong, so please correct me)
>
> cheers,
>
> WBL
>
>
>  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.
>>
>
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