[Live-demo] [OSGeo] #1717: GeoMoose fails to start in Xenial due to PHP7 (due to no MapScript)

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#1717: GeoMoose fails to start in Xenial due to PHP7 (due to no MapScript)
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 Reporter:  kalxas   |       Owner:  live-demo@…
     Type:  defect   |      Status:  new
 Priority:  blocker  |   Milestone:  OSGeoLive10.0
Component:  LiveDVD  |  Resolution:
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Comment (by jimk):

 I am not a PHP developer. I have some experience with the Swig bindings
 for Python and Ruby so I gave the (non Swig) PHP bindings a shot for a
 couple hours but being unfamiliar with the PHP C API and the differences
 between PHP5 and PHP7, I can't make any sense of the current PHP
 !MapScript code and what it would take to fix.

 I was however able to get Python !MapScript to build against Python 3.4
 with some minimal changes.  I'm not sure how much of it actually works,
 but some simple tests of loading and rendering a mapfile to an image were
 successful.

 The GeoMoose PSC will need to discuss and decide how to proceed given the
 current situation.  Currently, it is clear that PHP 5 and PHP !MapScript
 are hard dependencies of the GeoMoose demo.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1717#comment:4>
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