[Chameleon-dev] chameleon beta ready for internal qa

[Paul Spencer]

All,

the chameleon beta is ready again for internal QA.  The last attempt 
suffered from purely configuration problems that made it difficult to 
get working without hacking the samples.  I have fixed a couple of 
issues related to this and seem to have solved at least the 
configuration issues.  (There is still a problem that Bart noted with 
dealing with URLs and the PopupCSS sharedresource that I need to look 
into, but it doesn't affect the samples or the QA of them, plus you can 
easily work around the issue so it is not a show-stopper).

I have run the smoke test again, this time on both windows and linux, 
and have produced minimal instructions for setup and configuration 
instead of relying on me doing it and making you guess how to do it.

To facilitate testing on Linux, you can use the following instructions 
to set up in your home account on xcalibur, should be portable to any 
other linux with public_html access

1. extract chameleon-<version>.tar.gz to ~
2. run make in ~/chameleon-<version>/htdocs/common/wmsparse/
3. create symlink from ~/public_html/chameleon to 
~/chameleon-<version>/htdocs
4. create symlink from ~/public_html/samples to 
~/chameleon-<version>/samples/htdocs
5. copy ~/chameleon-<version>/config/cwc2.xml-dist to 
~/chameleon-<version>/config/cwc2.xml
6. edit ~/chameleon-<version>/config/cwc2.xml and set up values 
appropriately:

cwc2_url             : http://www2.dmsolutions.ca/~<username>/chameleon/
web_server_path      : http://www2.dmsolutions.ca/~<username>/chameleon/
wms_parse_file       : 
/home/<username>/chameleon-<version>/htdocs/common/wmsparse/wmsparse
mapscript_module     : php_mapscript_42.so
button_cache_path    : /tmp/ms_tmp/buttons/
button_cache_web_path: /ms_tmp/buttons/
tmp_web_path         : /ms_tmp/
tmp_img_path         : /tmp/ms_tmp/
fontlist_file        : /home/<username>/chameleon-<version>/etc/fonts.txt
symbol_file          : /home/<username>/chameleon-<version>/etc/symbols.sym

With this done, you should be able to execute the smoke test and other 
sample apps by accessing http://<server>/~<username>/samples

(
NOTE: using only slightly different instructions, you can set up a cvs 
version of chameleon and php_utils in the same way so that you have a 
fully functional chameleon running directly from cvs.  To do this, 
replace step 1. with the following:

1 a. checkout chameleon to ~/chameleon
1 b. checkout php_utils to ~/php_utils
1 c. copy or symlink ~/php_utils/src/ to ~/chameleon/htdocs/common
)

To facilitate testing on Windows, I have set up an ms4w version as well 
:)  The only difference is that on Windows, you will access the samples via

http://<server>/chameleon/samples/

Downloads are available from:

http://www2.dmsolutions.ca/netbin/chameleon-1.99beta-20040513.tar.gz
http://www2.dmsolutions.ca/netbin/chameleon-1.99beta-20040513.zip
http://www2.dmsolutions.ca/netbin/chameleon_ms4w-1.99beta-20040513.zip

For chameleon-dev listers, this is a pre-release of the beta version and 
I would encourage you not to use it until the official beta release 
following internal QA on this version.  It will hopefully only take a 
day or so.  But if you are really desperate, I doubt there will be any 
change at this point and the feedback on your experience will be 
valuable too ... especially if it doesn't work ;)

For Norm:

there were a couple of problems with the smoke test:

1. The smoke test should likely include the above instructions
2. The windows version is slightly different and has a bug in that the 
zoomout widget is used without zooming in first ... this fails because 
the map file contains a maxscale value that prevents zooming out :)

Also, there are still a couple of invalid references to a_pixel.gif 
coming out in the logs, I consider this inconsequential for the beta 
release.

Cheers,

Paul

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|Paul Spencer                           pspencer at dmsolutions.ca   |
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