On 6/9/2011 8:58 AM, Chris Green wrote:
Hi All
I have been running Mapserver 5.4 for about 18 months on a Fedora core 7
Unix platform. I installed it via the FGS installer package which made
the installation process relatively straightforward.
Now I see that Mapserver 6.0 has been released and it includes some
features that I really want to take advantage of, particularly the
ability to cluster dense features. My problem is that apparently the FGS
package has not been updated, so from the Mapserver website it looks
like I have start from scratch with a scarily long list of libraries and
compilations required to install Mapserver 6.0 from scratch. As
something of a Unix novice I don’t fancy this very much!
I am wondering if there is a simple way to in effect replace my existing
Mapserver 5.4 executable with Mapserver 6.0 - could I assume that
Mapserver 6.0 only requires the same libraries as 5.4 and just compile
the 6.0 executable? Any guidance on the direction to take here would be
gratefully received.
Hi Chris,
Be aware that 5.4 to 6.0 is probably NOT a transparent upgrade from a
mapfile point of view. Make sure you read the mapserver migration guide.
One of the big changes that we made in 6.0 was to clean up some of the
mapfile syntax and remove some deprecated tags. These should not be
major changes but it is likely that some (all?) of your mapfiles will
need to be tweaked to get them to work.
So please plan accordingly.
-Steve W
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