Hi Charlton,
The MapServer Enterprise release you are refering to was developed by
Autodesk. I don't know how long it was in the works, but clearly a while
because it is represents a significant development effort. That
shouldn't be confused with the formation of the Foundation though. That
development was done independently and the code has been contributed to
the community.
The 125MB demo you refer to is the authoring environment for MapServer
Enterprise. It is definitely related to MapServer Enterprise, but not
related to the MapServer (Cheetah) we are familiar with. Studio is
necessary in order to write MSE 'mapfiles' and it allows you to create
publishable applications as well.
I hope this clears things up a bit.
Dean
Charlton Purvis wrote:
Hi, folks:
I have been paying attention to the spirited dialog re. yesterday's
announcement. But I may have missed something along the way, and I have
just taken my first look at the .org site. If the Foundation is still in
its early stages, who has been working to release what I see here?
http://www.mapserverfoundation.org/mapserver_enterprise/download.html And
for how long?
I'm still downloading the whopping 125MB demo from here
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112&id=6153839. Long
gone are small installs. That site refers to that d/l as AutodeskR
MapServer Studio - Preview, and it's terribly confusing how that relates to
what we're calling Cheetah or Enterprise. That is, if it is supposed to
relate at all.
And not to belabor the point, the .org website appears to leave little doubt
that there are 2 separate beasts (Cheetah and Enterprise) that already have
names.
Charlton
