[ZOO-PSC] [mapserver-users] Tinyows as a WFS-T server - error commiting write

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Venka,

Thanks for responding to me.  I've removed your private message, because 
I'd like to respond to the entire ZOO-Project steering committee.

I think it is great that ZOO-Project is moving to the cloud.

In terms of MS4W, as you know I have for a very long time tried to 
promote the powers of MS4W.  Since September it has been revived, and it 
has never been stronger (passing over 5,000 downloads per month 
recently).  I track all of the statistics very closely now.

I don't believe that projects realize how much their users rely on MS4W 
(such as OpenLayers, GeoMOOSE, Mapbender, MapServer, and soon 
ZOO-Project).  Funding is provided for development of core features for 
these projects, but packaging is always forgotten.  So that is where I 
jump in, with no funding (ha, the story of my career).

My point really is to reach out to the ZOO-Project steering committee, 
and let them know that I am focused on enhancing MS4W with WPS (and 
WFS-T) capabilities, of course through the ZOO-Project.  I truly see 
this as a big enhancement for the MapServer and ZOO-Project communities. 
  And to let the ZOO-Project know that my company Gateway Geomatics is 
committed to this.

So I hope that you will see public messages from me soon, as we tackle 
compiling and adding ZOO-Project to MS4W.  Maybe that appveyor work 
recently done will help, at the moment I am not sure.  But thank you to 
Gérald for sharing that news.

Ok thanks for talking, have a great week everyone,

-jeff



-- 
Jeff McKenna
MapServer Consulting and Training Services
http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/




On 2016-04-04 9:58 PM, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote:
> Jeff and Gerald,
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> *private mail*
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> On 2016/04/05 1:32, Jeff McKenna wrote:
>> Hello Gérald,
>>
>> Congratulations on your appveyor work.
>>
>> It is interesting timing of course, as I am working very hard on the
>> MS4W build process, preparing the environment for the ZOO-Project.
>> I've been fulltime on MS4W since September, when ms4w.com was launched.
>>
>> Of course, in the perfect world your response would have been "great
>> timing, we really need ZOO-Project distributed on Windows, with
>> MapServer 7 support, and instead of spending so much time learning the
>> process ourselves, we have chosen to fund Gateway Geomatics to add
>> this into MS4W, for the entire MapServer and ZOO-Project community".  :)
>>
>> Good luck with your appveyors builds.
>>
>> As you know, or might not know, MS4W environment is much different
>> than the environment you chose.  All libraries are kept uptodate, and
>> a strict release cycle is followed (this makes sure all 160+ libraries
>> are kept uptodate, which, maybe you should check into about the
>> libraries you chose to use, you will find most are very old).  It is a
>> lot of work, as you are finding out (likely why you chose to use
>> libraries compiled elsewhere).  None of the 160+ libraries are
>> compiled externally, it is all done in-house.
>>
>> Anyway, I just thought I'd update the ZOO-Project PSC with this
>> effort.  I hope to have something to the MapServer community soon.  As
>> you noticed in my recent public messages, the GeoMOOSE developer
>> community has been using MS4W for their WFS-T through TinyOWS (I did
>> all that unfunded by the way).  I am doing the same for ZOO-Project.
>>
>> I expect you'll see public messages from me this month, on issues
>> related to these builds.  I can imagine I'll be hitting many issues,
>> with newer library versions, compilers, and all that fun, soon :))))
>>
>> Thanks for listening,
>>
>> -jeff
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