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 In my research, it seems that both packages are using MapServer versions that are fairly out of date.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. =============================== Michael Smith MS GISP State GIS Manager, Maine Office of GIS State of Maine, Office of Information Technology michael.smith _at_ maine.gov 207-215-5530 Board Member, Maine GeoLibrary Education Chair, Maine GIS Users Group State Rep, National States Geographic Information Council [cid:[email protected]] State House Station 145 51 Commerce Drive Augusta, ME 04333-0145 69o 47' 58.9"W 44o 21' 54.8"N From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Smith Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 9:29 AM To: [email protected] 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 <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> 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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