[mapserver-users] upgrade Mapserver 5.4 to 6.0 (gulp!)

[Smith, Michael D ERDC-CRREL-NH]

Chris,

What Linux OS are you on? There are packages for Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL, etc.

See http://mapserver.org/download.html#linux


On 6/9/11  11:04 AM, "Chris Green" <chris.green at ibstv.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi Steve
> 
> Thanks for your comments. I have read the documentation and realise that
> there will be quite a few changes to my mapfile(s). I'm not at all worried
> about that, it's just a question of patiently working through the changes.
> However I am very apprehensive of the upgrade itself. Before I installed the
> FGS package I spent many, many hours trying to compile and install Mapserver
> myself but eventually had to admit defeat and resort to FGS.
> 
> Now there is no FGS to fall back on, I'm hoping for some guidance (or maybe
> just some encouragement!)
> 
> 
> Chris
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> [mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Stephen
> Woodbridge
> Sent: 09 June 2011 15:42
> To: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] upgrade Mapserver 5.4 to 6.0 (gulp!)
> 
> On 6/9/2011 8:58 AM, Chris Green wrote:
>> Hi All
>> 
>> I have been running Mapserver 5.4 for about 18 months on a Fedora core 7
>> Unix platform. I installed it via the FGS installer package which made
>> the installation process relatively straightforward.
>> 
>> Now I see that Mapserver 6.0 has been released and it includes some
>> features that I really want to take advantage of, particularly the
>> ability to cluster dense features. My problem is that apparently the FGS
>> package has not been updated, so from the Mapserver website it looks
>> like I have start from scratch with a scarily long list of libraries and
>> compilations required to install Mapserver 6.0 from scratch. As
>> something of a Unix novice I don't fancy this very much!
>> 
>> I am wondering if there is a simple way to in effect replace my existing
>> Mapserver 5.4 executable with Mapserver 6.0 - could I assume that
>> Mapserver 6.0 only requires the same libraries as 5.4 and just compile
>> the 6.0 executable? Any guidance on the direction to take here would be
>> gratefully received.
> 
> Hi Chris,
> 
> Be aware that 5.4 to 6.0 is probably NOT a transparent upgrade from a
> mapfile point of view. Make sure you read the mapserver migration guide.
> One of the big changes that we made in 6.0 was to clean up some of the
> mapfile syntax and remove some deprecated tags. These should not be
> major changes but it is likely that some (all?) of your mapfiles will
> need to be tweaked to get them to work.
> 
> So please plan accordingly.
> 
> -Steve W
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