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Sun Sep 24 19:33:48 2006 UTC (18 years, 5 months ago) by bernhard
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1 bernhard 2674 Changes in Thuban 1.1.0+CVS
2     ===========================
3    
4 bernhard 2707 - Python <= 2.4 calls C extension modules with the set locale.
5     This means those modules need to be robust against a locale
6     where LC_NUMERIC is set in a way that the decimal_point might
7     be a comma or something else. Problems are diagnosed
8     at least with shapelib, proj and gdal. To cope with it we:
9    
10     + Added a new option --setdecimalcommalocale to runtests.py so that
11     all tests can be checked with a comma as decimal_point, if we
12     can find such an LC_NUMERIC. We only try a few in test/localessupport.py.
13    
14     + Fixed behaviour with proj by switching to LC_NUMERIC "C" before
15     initialising the projection and afterward switch back.
16    
17     + Added a workaround to internal shapelib and pyshapelib.
18    
19 bernhard 2674 - Startup improved: We fail right away if the internal encoding could
20     not be determined. In this case, try to set the LANGUAGE variable to
21     one value and use no colon.
22     If we startup you can see the internal encoding in the about dialog now.
23    
24     - Improved extensions:
25    
26     - Improved svxexport extension 1.0.0+cvs (Bernhard Reiter)
27    
28     + Fixed ARC layer writing: No filling is done.
29     You could actually get polylines with filling in between,
30     when the classification for the lines had a fill color.
31     E.g. this happens when you generate a classification from a ramp.
32    
33     + Fixed label export.
34    
35 bh 2649 Changes in Thuban 1.1.0
36     =======================
37    
38     - Thuban rembers directories in file selection dialogs during a thuban
39     session
40    
41     - Add some support for wxPython 2.5 and 2.6. Thuban is still
42     compatible with wxPython 2.4.
43    
44     - Change the way thuban deals with non-ascii text. The internal
45     representation is now the user's default encoding. Thuban works a
46     bit better with a unicode build of wxPython but there are still
47     problems. (Bernhard Herzog)
48    
49     - Various raster data improvements. Among other things, translucent
50     images are now supported on a sufficiently recent wxWidgets (2.6).
51     Also, only the part of the window actually covered by the image is
52     drawn. (Jonathan Coles)
53    
54     - Improved PostGIS support (Bernhard Herzog):
55    
56     - support tables with multiple geometry columns. The user can
57     select which one to use
58    
59     - support tables with srids
60    
61     - tables don't have to have a column named "gid" anymore. The user
62     can select the column to use for ids
63    
64     - PostgreSQL views are supported too
65    
66     - support LINESTRING geometries
67    
68     - support more PostgreSQL versions. 7.4 works now.
69    
70     - Added support for sizable points (Jan-Oliver Wagner)
71    
72     - When loading a (moved) session where shapefiles cannot be found, ask
73     the user (Frank Koormann)
74    
75     - The middle mouse button can be used for panning now (Russell Nelson)
76    
77     - Give a warning when the projection selected for a layer is probably
78     wrong (Russell Nelson)
79    
80     - Updated shapelib
81    
82     - New or improved extensions:
83    
84     - A new extension which exports a map as SVG
85     (Markus Rechtien, Bernhard Reiter)
86    
87     - Improved WMS extension (Martin Schulze)
88    
89     - New Extension to dump bounding boxes of all shapes of the selected
90     layer (Frank Koormann)
91    
92     - New extension: umn_mapserver (Jan Schüngel)
93    
94     - New extension: OGR (Nina Hüffmeyer)
95    
96     - New Extension: mouseposition. Tool to collect mouse click positions
97     (map coordinates) in a dialog. (Frank Koormann)
98    
99     - Documentation:
100    
101     - Add some documentation of the internals of Thuban.
102     See Doc/technotes/
103    
104     - The thuban manual has been partly translated to German
105     (Jan-Oliver Wagner)
106    
107     - Updated translations:
108     Russian (Alex Shevlakov)
109    
110     - New translations:
111     Brazilian Portuguese (Eduardo Patto Kanegae)xb
112     Hungarian (Norbert Solymosi)
113    
114    
115 bh 2043 Changes in Thuban 1.0.0
116     =======================
117    
118     - Updated translations:
119    
120     Italian by Maurizio Napolitano
121     Spanish and French by Daniel Calvelo Aros
122     Russian by Alex Shevlakov
123    
124     - some minor bug fixes
125    
126    
127 bh 1997 Changes in Thuban 1.0rc1
128     ========================
129    
130     - Redering improvements
131    
132     Rendering the map in the main window does not freeze Thuban
133     completely anymore. While the rendering occurs the window is updated
134     regularly to show the progress and you can interact with the window
135     and thuban in general even when the rendering is not complete yet
136    
137     The map display is also faster in many cases now, especially when
138     doing classifictions.
139    
140     The renderes have a mechanism to define how new layer classes defined
141     in extensions can be rendered (see the new wms extension for an
142     example)
143    
144     - Added a few extensions in the Extensions sub-directory. Most of them
145 bh 2006 are experimental to varying extents. Note that the binary packages
146     might not contain all of these extensions.
147 bh 1997
148     - gns2shp
149    
150     Convert GNS (GEOnet Names Server) files to shapefiles. See
151     Extensions/gns2shp/gns2shp.py for more information
152    
153     - wms
154    
155     Use thuban as WMS client. See Extensions/wms/wms.py for more
156     information
157    
158     - importAPR
159    
160     Import a ArcView project file (.apr) and convert it to Thuban.
161    
162     - profiling
163    
164     For developers: perfomance measurement for the rendering code.
165     See Extensions/profiling/profiling.py for details.
166    
167     - drawshape
168    
169     This is a *very experimental* and potentially *dangerous* extension
170     to add shapes to a shapefile. Be careful with it as it may lead to
171     data loss. For more information, see Extensions/drawshape/README
172    
173     - A new command line option --enable-attribute-editing, which when
174     given turns on editing of attribute values in the identify view. It
175     only works on layers whose attribute data is stored in DBF files.
176     This experimental and may lead to data loss, so be careful when using
177     it.
178    
179     - EPSG projections
180    
181     Thuban now comes with two .proj files containing EPSG projections
182     (epsg.proj and epsg-deprecated.proj in Resources/Projections/). These
183     projections can be shown in the dialog with the new check boxes under
184     "Show EPSG".
185    
186     - Context menu in the legend window
187    
188     The legend window now has a context menu for most of the layer
189     commands
190    
191     - Localization updates
192    
193     The localization is now done with wxWindow's localization support and
194     thus deals automatically with character encoding transformations and
195     the standard dialogs are also translated properly if the wxWindows
196     .mo files are installed
197    
198     Updated translations for French and Spanish contributed by Daniel
199     Calvelo. Updated German translation
200    
201     - PostGIS improvements
202    
203     - Quote table and columns names properly.
204    
205     - The dialog deals better with duplicate connections (e.g. trying to
206     create a new connection when there already is a connection for the
207     same database)
208    
209     - Files written with the Windows version of Thuban can now be read by
210     the unix version. The other way round was already possible.
211    
212     - The shapefile handling code now uses shapelib 1.2.10
213    
214     - Thuban should work without problems and warnings with Python 2.3 now.
215    
216    
217 bh 1700 Changes in Thuban 0.9
218     =====================
219    
220     - An initial version of the Thuban User's Manual. Currently only the
221     XML sources and the images are shipped with the Thuban sources. The
222     binary distributions do not contain the document at this point. An
223     online version is available at
224     http://thuban.intevation.org/documentation.html
225    
226     - New Translations: German, Italian and Russian. The Italian and
227     Russion translations are based on 0.8.1 and therefore not quite up to
228     date. German is up to date, though. For 1.0 we intend to have a
229     translation period where all translations can be brought up to date.
230    
231     - PostGIS support. This feaure is still a bit experimental at this
232     point and is not very well tested yet. It should work PostgreSQL
233     7.2.1 and postgis 0.7 as that's what we tested it with. Newer
234     versions probably also work.
235    
236     The user as which the connection is established obviously needs
237     select permissions on any table to show and also on the
238     geometry_columns table.
239    
240     Known Issues:
241    
242     - Only four geometry types are currently supported: POINT,
243     MULTILINESTRING, POLYGON and MULTIPOLYGON.
244    
245     - Tables must have a gid column which is assumed to be a non-NULL
246     integer which uniquely identifies the row.
247    
248     - It's not optimized so some things may be very slow. For instance
249     the number of queries done could be reduced substantially
250     especially if you use classifications. Having an index on the gid
251     column can speed things up in that case. Note that at least older
252     versions shp2pgsql do not create such an index.
253    
254     - Renamed the subdirectory extensions to libraries. The name extensions
255     can now be used for a directory with Thuban extensions.
256    
257    
258     More changes in even more detail are listed in the ChangeLog file.

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