[mapserver-users] Mascript information

[Stephen Woodbridge]

On 4/8/2017 3:41 PM, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> On 4/8/2017 2:26 PM, Stefanos Anastasiou wrote:
>> Hi list,
>> I need a small clarification about mapscript. I noticed that the 
>> documentation on the API of php Mapscript is fully documented here:
>>
>> http://mapserver.org/mapscript/php/phpmapscript.html
>>
>> Regarding python mapscript, which documentation is the appropriate 
>> one? Is it this? http://mapserver.org/mapscript/mapscript.html
>>
>> I mean like, the API is the same for both languages and all we need is 
>> the language agnostic documentation of the previous link?
>>
>> I'm a bit confused....
> 
> Historically, PHP mapscript was a little bit different from the SWIG 
> mapscript variants. They are very close but not exactly the same for all 
> things. In the next major release I believe PHP 7 will also be supported 
> under the SWIG version. I believe that the plan is to keep the old 
> legacy php mapscript for backwards compatibility but deprecate it, but 
> don't hold me to that.
> 
> Hope this helps,
>    -Steve W

Oh! forgot to mention that Python mapscript in fact all mapscripts other 
than PHP use the SWIG API Reference.

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