On 06/27/2016 01:41 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
Forwarding to the MapServer community, to get feedback and testing with PHP 7.
Thanks. -jeff
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Subject: Re: [MS4W-Users] version 4.0.0 pre-release 'alpha' available
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 12:42:11 -0300
From: Jeff McKenna via MS4W-Users <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
CC: Jeff McKenna <[email protected]>
Hello everyone,
Another alpha build (alpha3) is now available on the download server
(http://www.ms4w.com/release/experimental/), which contains PHP 7.0.8 as well
as its extensions. Thank you to those who had filed tickets for specific PHP
extensions (at http://ms4w.com/trac). Note that most of the extensions are
loaded by default in PHP, so the best way to check what extensions are included
is through a phpinfo() call (there is a 'phpinfo.php' file already included in
/ms4w/apache/htdocs/ Technical users might want to check the configure command
used when I compiled this PHP, which is shown in the phpinfo() results (or here
is a screenshot, see the 5th row in the table:
http://pasteboard.co/1ZYfzJyX.png). Don't be afraid to request additional
extensions through the MS4W tracker: http://ms4w.com/trac - the time is now for
feedback and requests.
PHP 7 is of course a big improvement (and I've invested almost 2 months of my
time to rebuild the entire MS4W stack for PHP 7, which requires the latest
compiler). You can check online for performance improvements of PHP 7, most
estimate 3X speed improvements with this version (wow). An important note of
course is that PHPMapScript is not yet included in the alpha, as it definitely
requires additional development time and effort; so please please contact me
directly if your organization can help fund this effort.
Thank you for using MS4W.
-jeff
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Please check the 'HISTORY.txt' file in the alpha, for a list of changes in your
alpha build.
To use these alpha builds, be sure to install the 'Microsoft Visual C++ 2015
Redistributable Update 2
' package first (vc_redist.x86.exe):
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=51682 An important
note: because of this new compiler, old systems running Windows XP (and
possible Windows Server 2003) can no longer be supported. But of course if
need be, I can provide custom builds with the old compiler for those
organizations requiring that.
I realize that so many organizations (many on this mailing list) rely heavily
on MS4W, so please contact me directly to help support its development with
funding. It is very important.
Below is a list of recent changes. If you want the latest stable MS4W release,
please download last month's MS4W 3.1.4 release (from http://ms4w.com/).
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2016-06-27 Gateway Geomatics
* ms4w version 4.0.0-alpha3 created. Notable changes are:
- upgraded PHP to 7.0.8 with Visual Studio 2015 compiler (trac ticket
5)
- built additional PHP extensions with Visual Studio 2015 compiler:
pdo_mysql (trac ticket 52), pdo_oci, oci8, bzip2
- rebuilt all GDAL plugins and bindings
- moved CSharp, Java, Python bindings into folder /ms4w/gdalbindings/
- updated script /gdalbindings/python/test-cgi-mapscript.py for
Python 3
*PHPMapScript will not work in this version, needs dev work + funding
Forgive my dumbness. But. Whats the point of PHP if PHPMapScript doesnt work?
Even if it did work, what's the point when 90% of the time spent is inside
mapserver, of which 50% of that time is spent reading .shp/PostGIS/.tiff/etc.
I'm all for PHP 7, please don't misunderstand, but this:
PHP 7 is of course a big improvement (and I've invested almost 2 months
Makes it sound like my gis hosting is going to be 3x faster. But its not.
Right?
-Andy
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