[MS4W-Users] version 4.0.0-beta1 available

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Janeks,

The distributed MS4W (including the 4.0.0 release) is 32bit; you can 
contact me directly if you need 64bit or any custom needs.  thanks.  -jeff



On 2019-02-05 4:14 AM, Janeks Kamerovskis via MS4W-Users wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Are these 64bit or 32bit packages?
> 
> Ar cieņu,
> Janeks Kamerovskis
> Sia SilvITa
> m.t. 26374846
> 
> On 05.02.2019. 3:01, Jeff McKenna via MS4W-Users wrote:
>> I should also mention that MS4W-4.0.0-beta1 contains PHP 7.2.14 and 
>> the performance improvements are quite impressive, very noticeable in 
>> MS4W.
>>
>> -jeff
>>
>>
>> On 2019-02-04 8:43 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> Many users will be very interested that MS4W-4.0.0-beta1 is available 
>>> now, which will be a huge release of changes, as every library
>>> (over 200 now) has been upgraded and built with a new compiler 
>>> (Visual Studio 2017), and contains many great additions overall.  You 
>>> can test the beta at:
>>>
>>>   - installer: 
>>> https://ms4w.com/release/experimental/ms4w-4.0.0-beta1-setup.exe 
>>> (recommended)
>>>   - archive: https://ms4w.com/release/experimental/ms4w_4.0.0_beta1.zip
>>>
>>> Please see MS4W's HISTORY.txt for all of the changes, but here are 
>>> some of the highlights:
>>>
>>>   - Mapbox Vector Tile output through MapServer (demo included)
>>>   - PHP7 mapscript support (using the SWIG API)
>>>   - embedded Python 3.7.0
>>>   - running pycsw Catalogue Server
>>>   - expanded ZOO-Project WPS support (all GDAL/OGR services, Python, 
>>> PHP, CSharp, Java)
>>>   - new Matomo Analytics package
>>>   - simple map viewer on the localhost page
>>>   - GDAL 2.4.0
>>>   - MapServer 7.4.0-dev
>>>   - mod_wsgi for Apache
>>>   - and many more...
>>>
>>> You can see that MS4W-4.0.0 will be a full SDI for Windows 
>>> environments, with ~40+ working mapfiles and over 1.7GB of files, 
>>> empowering DevOps and organizations worldwide.  Also note that this 
>>> is a major release for MS4W, meaning that some things have changed 
>>> dramatically (PHPmapscript will now use the SWIG API for example), so 
>>> please follow MS4W's README for specific instructions for the many 
>>> plugins and mapscripts.
>>>
>>> When installing, it is very important that (if you are using the 
>>> .zip) your server must have the C++ Redistributable installed on it 
>>> beforehand: execute the local file /ms4w/tmp/vcredist_x86.exe 
>>> (alternatively if you use MS4W's setup.exe installer this is done 
>>> automatically)
>>>
>>> Please provide your 4.0.0 testing feedback through the MS4W tracker 
>>> (so the feedback is not lost or forgotten): http://www.ms4w.com/trac/
>>>
>>> Thank you all for sharing your spatial information with MS4W.
>>>
>>>
>>> -jeff
>>>
>>>
>>

-- 
Jeff McKenna
MapServer Consulting and Training Services
https://gatewaygeomatics.com/