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Hi Jeff,<br>
<br>
Thank you for your reply. I will struggle to bring any funding to
the development but will try to contribute with my time instead. I
am sorry, I missed your post about GNU Regex. I am relatively new to
Mapserver, the mailing lists and started to look into the source
code only recently. Thanks for starting the ticket to replace regex
with PCRE. I agree that PCRE is probably the way forward,
particularly due to its license. I have posted a possible way to
build Mapserver with PCRE as a comment to your ticket.<br>
<br>
Cheers, Josef<br>
<br>
On 17/02/2012 20:08, Jeff McKenna [via OSGeo.org] wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:1329505735322-4481322.post@n6.nabble.com"
type="cite"> Hello Josef,
<br>
<br>
Thanks for your comments, I will respond inline below:
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<div class="quote-author" style="font-weight: bold;">jbicik
wrote</div>
<div class="quote-message">Thank you very much for releasing
this new build. I can't wait to try this out.
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</blockquote>
I am very pleased to hear that this popular product is being used
by another organization. I truly get excited when I hear positive
feedback like this.
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<div class="quote-author" style="font-weight: bold;">jbicik
wrote</div>
<div class="quote-message">Would you please consider updating
the Mapserver buildkit (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://download.osgeo.org/buildkit/" target="_top" rel="nofollow" link="external">http://download.osgeo.org/buildkit/</a>)
to the latest version? </div>
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You can contact me directly for any custom needs that you or your
clients need; this is how such a great product is able to be
maintained and also be so innovative. I am very responsive to
these demands, as this is such a huge part of my company Gateway
Geomatics' livelihood. Don't feel shy to support MS4W's
development, especially if you and your clients rely so heavily on
it. Thank you.
<br>
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<div class="quote-author" style="font-weight: bold;">jbicik
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<div class="quote-message">Also, could you please let me know
if your MS4W build contains the GNU regex or not? I had some
discussion in the Mapserver forum about a possible license
conflict since regex is released under GPL and MS4W is
licensed under MIT/X style license. There is a possibility
to easily build Mapserver with regex from PHP 5.3.1.
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I did bring this exact discussion up on the MapServer dev list as
I was working on the 3.0.4 release, however I got zero response
(you can see myself talking to myself on Jan11th at <a
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href="http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/Opinions-on-using-GNU-regex-VS-PHP-regex-for-Windows-build-td4252768.html"
target="_top" rel="nofollow" link="external">http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/Opinions-on-using-GNU-regex-VS-PHP-regex-for-Windows-build-td4252768.html</a>).
Since then I did see a thread on the MapServer users list.
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I would agree that the best way forward is to replace the GNU
regex/PHP regex use with the PCRE library, that has a BSD license.
I have started a ticket at <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2365"
target="_top" rel="nofollow" link="external">http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2365</a>
Please add yourself to the CC of that ticket, and help with
testing/comments and you could even provide funding for this if
your organization can do so. My initial look at this shows me
that oddly enough there are hardcoded references to specific files
like 'regex.h' embedded deep in the MapServer source code; so
funding to help dive into this is much appreciated. We'll add
PCRE into the next MS4W release, 3.0.5.
<br>
<br>
Thank you for this feedback. The MS4W community of users are very
important to me.
<br>
<br>
-jeff
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Jeff McKenna
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MapServer Consulting and Training
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