Following Up

Sean Gillies

2006-03-01 00:00

It has been getting read lately, so I would like to follow up on a previous post about MapServer and the P* languages. I made a few predictions about the future of MapServer language bindings, and they have been both right and wrong.

It's no longer possible to use Google to research the mapserver-users list due to the terrible decision to put the list behind a subscription wall, and the UMN listserv has a rather crippled search interface. It is Web -2.0, a big step backwards. My evaluation of trends in language usage is therefore anecdotal, but I get the distinct impression that, overall, interest in scripting MapServer went down across the board in the second half of 2005.

Comments

Re: Following Up

Author: Ricardo Stuven

> It's no longer possible to use Google to > research the mapserver-users list due to the > terrible decision to put the list behind a > subscription wall, and the UMN listserv has a > rather crippled search interface. Check out http://www.gmane.org/

Re: Following Up

Author: Sean

Right. In the past I weighed mapscript popularity by comparing the number of hits on Google. Gmane lets me search, but it doesn't give me a hit count.