It would be good if Jeff McKenna could keep MS4W up to date but I realise that it's a lot of work and Jeff deserves financial compensation for doing so. It does seem to have lagged behind for some time now. For me, it's important in that it's a Windows version that some, including me, used as their introduction to MapServer. I feel that, with it lagging behind too much, it may push people in another direction which would be a shame for the MapServer project as a whole.
Regards, Donald -----Original Message----- From: mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Rahkonen Jukka (Tike) Sent: 13 February 2014 15:05 To: Mapserver-Users (mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org) Subject: [mapserver-users] What is the best way to test development versions on Windows? Hi, I would like to test the new dynamic heatmaps http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-108.html but I am on Windows and Mapserver project is not extremely Windows friendly nowadays. Ideal for users like me would be to have for example weekly builds which could be installed like MS4W - unzip and run. But we don't have such builds and MS4W lags so much behind that curious users need to use something else. What I have done sometimes is to make a basic install with MS4W and then download fresh development binaries from gisinternals. By copying mapserv.exe and GDAL dll files into ms4w\apache\cgi-bin it is usually possible to make the new Mapserver dev version to run. However, the result is often unstable and some strange things happen. Probably I have then something incompatible in GDAL directories of MS4W and I should copy some more files. Is it even theoretically possible to update MS4W reliably in this way? Another alternative is obviously to use OSGeo4W installer. However, I feel it is a somewhat odd creature which installs this and that even I would only like to test Mapserver. I seem to have about 1 GB on disk while MS4W is perhaps 200 MB. It is also impossible to know what all OSGeo4W installer is updating when is installs a new nightly build of Mapserver so I think it is necessary to make a backup copy of the whole OSGeo4W directory if there happens to be a need to go back to yesterday's version. What other Windows users and developers consider as a best way to stay close to the cutting edge? Other than to start using Linux, I mean. -Jukka Rahkonen- _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2014.0.4335 / Virus Database: 3697/7088 - Release Date: 02/12/14 _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
