[mapserver-users] alternatives to ms4w?

[Smith, Michael]

I am curious about this myself.  In my research, it seems that both packages are using MapServer versions that are fairly out of date.

MS4W hasn't been updated in over a year and is at MapServer 6.0.3
OSGeo4W reports it is using an even older version 5.0.x.

Meanwhile MapServer itself is at 6.2.1 and counting.

One big difference in the two packages is that OSGeo4W is a bunch of OS GIS tools including things like GRASS and QGIS, while MS4W is just MapServer.  We use MS4W extensively and find it very easy to install and configure compared to OSGeo4W.  MS4W really is the 'drop-in' approach and we can typically set up a server in about 30 seconds.

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Michael Smith MS GISP
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State of Maine, Office of Information Technology
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From: mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of John Smith
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 9:29 AM
To: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] alternatives to ms4w?

guys,
are there any recommendations between ms4w and osgeo4w. i guess it depends on use case but for typical uses?

https://encrypted.google.com/?q=ms4w+vs+osgeo4w
as for my case, i'd like to use the latest release of apache, postgis and php with mapserver, and so just looking to drop-in ms on windows.

it seems osgeo4w is heavier than ms4w. why not combine these efforts.

thanks, jzs

On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Siki Zoltan <siki at agt.bme.hu<mailto:siki at agt.bme.hu>> wrote:
Dear John,

check osgeo4w at http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/

Regards,
Zoltan


On Sat, 29 Jun 2013, John Smith wrote:
guys,

are there any good alternatives to ms4w at
http://www.maptools.org/ms4w/?page=downloads.html. its last stable base
package is over a year old from may 26, 2012, and there is no timeline
given about its next release.

thanks, jzs

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