KyngChaos

GDAL 1.5.2-2

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:55:19 -0500

I fixed a linking problem with the internal Postgres library. This only affected the Leopard build, when the full Postgres was *not* installed.

MapServer 5.2.0-2, FreeType dev fix

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:32:16 -0500

Python MapScript never worked (and I didn't have a good test to figure that out). Until now. The source of the problem was FastCGI support for the mapserv CGI -- CGI functions are part of the main framework instead of just the mapserv program, and the framework then won't load from python because part of the Apache environment is missing (or something like that). I had tried a couple things to move CGI stuff out of the framework, with no success. So, I decided to drop fastcgi from MapServer completely. And, recent discussion on the MapServer mailing list pointed out that there is only a miniscule performance gain with fastcgi anyways. I also added quick tests for mapserv CGI and Python MapScript. While rebuilding MapServer, I also noticed that the FreeType framework headers were configured wrong. There are now fixed. (This is a developer update only - there are no changes in the framework binary for end-users.)

PROJ 4.6.1-2

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:35:51 -0500

PROJ 4.6.1-1 has a problem locating its data files (like EPSG). Fixed now.

MapServer 5.2.0-1a - Installer fix

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:39:29 -0500

The MapServer 5.2.0-1 installer had a typo in the requirements tests that would cause it to give a javascript error on OSX Tiger if the PROJ framework was missing. Should be fixed now, but I haven't had a chance to verify that.

PROJ 4.6.1

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:35:25 -0500

PROJ updated to 4.6.1.

Postgres Bonjour OK

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:37:25 -0500

OK, slight panic there. I didn't realize that ~/.pgpass was saving login passwords. Still, it was alarming.

Lesson: periodically review the invisible files in your home folder. A lot of *nix ported software puts stuff there instead of standard OSX prefs and support locations.

I'll return Bonjour support some time in a future update, it's not critical feature.

Postgres 8.3.3

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:01:59 -0500

Huh, my browser history says I downloaded the source, yet it was nowhere to be found. Sorry for the delay. (Note: 8.3.2 source was never released) One big change, and warning for old versions - I removed Bonjour support. For some reason that I'm looking into, a Bonjour connection is always trusted, regardless of how role permissions are defined in pg_hba.conf. And since I could find no way to turn Postgres Bonjour off, I had to remove it completely from the binary. If you don't completely trust users on your local network (and need to allow local network access), you should upgrade. If you only access Postgres from the same Mac (external access thru phppgadmin is technically local access) you're OK. Hopefully it's just some hba configuration I'm missing.

MapServer 5.2.0-1

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:18:29 -0500

Mapserver 5.2.0 is now available. I added some instructions on building other MapScripts that are not included in the installer. This way you don't have to worry about all the fiddly dependency bits to build MapServer from scratch. They were partially tested on Ruby mapscript on Leopard. I also added a build script for those that want to build the framework MapServer from source. I was using an Xcode project myself, but that was hard to maintain. The script should work for those still (!) on Panther who want an up-to-date MapServer. ... back to the site update ...

Site Updates

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:04:54 -0500

I updated the site software to Geeklog 1.5.0 (finally). There may still be some dust from the update. The most notable change is that the wiki is now integrated in the Geeklog layout. Mostly. I need to make some CSS adjustments to the design. Coming soon: new menus.