Re: [mapserver-users] why 5.0.3 on latest linux distro's

2008-10-10 Thread Christy Nieman
There is the FGS installer package (http://maptools.org/fgs/) for Linux. But it's still using version 5.0.2, as far as I know. Christy Willy-Bas Loos wrote: exactly. i built my own 5.2.0 too. But i'm not a system admin really and it's a bit of a hassle. If i were planning to compile my

Re: [mapserver-users] why 5.0.3 on latest linux distro's

2008-10-10 Thread Willy-Bas Loos
wait, osgeo4w has 5.0.2 (http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/wiki/pkg-mapserver) (like debian and ubuntu) but ms4w has 5.2.0 (http://www.maptools.org/ms4w/index.phtml) fedora 10 will have 5.2.0 ( http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=4354) seems to me that the changelog shows enough

Re: [mapserver-users] why 5.0.3 on latest linux distro's

2008-10-10 Thread Willy-Bas Loos
oh they've got a package for linux too, that's great! hm, they even included some sort of package manager. i'll go check it out. This looks like it could be a great help - it's not nice to have to compile all that from code. thanks! On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Christy Nieman [EMAIL

Re: [mapserver-users] why 5.0.3 on latest linux distro's

2008-10-10 Thread Christy Nieman
In my experiences with Fedora, they tend to keep the same version of MapServer that the OS version was released with (so Fedora 9 has 5.0.2, or something like that, by default). As I want to use the latest version, I build it for myself. I bet that distributions tend to stay with what they

[mapserver-users] why 5.0.3 on latest linux distro's

2008-10-09 Thread Willy-Bas Loos
Hi, Why do debian lenny and ubuntu 8.10 only have mapserver 5.0.3 in their package lists? MS4W has 5.2.0, this is feeling all wrong! cheers, WBL -- Patriotism is the conviction that your country is superior to all others because you were born in it. - George Bernard Shaw