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Tue Feb 20 10:51:07 2007 UTC (18 years ago) by bernhard
Original Path: trunk/thuban/NEWS
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* Doc/README: fixed a typo.

* Doc/technotes/release_process.txt: Updated. Reference platform
is Debian Etch now. If windows, it should be window XP.
Marked a few entries in the instructions as "Old:".

* README: Bumped requirements to wxWidgets 2.6.3.2 and gdal 1.3.2.. 
Added urls for homepage and infrastructure on wald. Fixed a typo.

* MANIFEST.in: Added subdir packaging which should be in the tarball.

* NEWS: Completed changes from 1.1.0 until today as gathered from
the Changelog entries. Added small section about OGR known problems
because we do not have a release-notes file so far.

1 bernhard 2728 Changes in Thuban 1.2.0
2     =======================
3 bernhard 2674
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 bernhard 2728 (Bernhard Reiter)
19 bernhard 2707
20 bernhard 2674 - Startup improved: We fail right away if the internal encoding could
21     not be determined. In this case, try to set the LANGUAGE variable to
22     one value and use no colon.
23     If we startup you can see the internal encoding in the about dialog now.
24 bernhard 2728 (Bernhard Reiter)
25 bernhard 2674
26 bernhard 2728 - Support for pysqlite2. (Didrik Pinte)
27 bernhard 2674
28 bernhard 2728 - Added packagin directory, which already has an example how
29     to load all extensions on windows. (Didrik Pinte)
30 bernhard 2674
31 bernhard 2728 - Updated code to support new style wxPython 2.6 imports. So
32     you need at least wyPython 2.6 . (Didrik Pinte)
33    
34     - New Classification "Pattern": Classify text attributes by regexp.
35     (Frank Koormann)
36    
37     - New or Improved Extensions:
38    
39     + Improved svxexport extension 1.0.1 (Bernhard Reiter)
40    
41     * Fixed ARC layer writing: No filling is done.
42 bernhard 2674 You could actually get polylines with filling in between,
43     when the classification for the lines had a fill color.
44     E.g. this happens when you generate a classification from a ramp.
45    
46 bernhard 2728 * Fixed label export.
47 bernhard 2674
48 bernhard 2728 + New export_shapefile extension (Jan-Oliver Wagner)
49     Available from the experimental menu.
50    
51     - Known Problems with Extension OGR:
52     - Two tests fail (probably because of an ogr/shapelib problem.)
53     https://wald.intevation.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=91
54     - Is slower than native Shapefile support.
55     - Classification might not work.
56    
57    
58 bh 2649 Changes in Thuban 1.1.0
59     =======================
60    
61     - Thuban rembers directories in file selection dialogs during a thuban
62     session
63    
64     - Add some support for wxPython 2.5 and 2.6. Thuban is still
65     compatible with wxPython 2.4.
66    
67     - Change the way thuban deals with non-ascii text. The internal
68     representation is now the user's default encoding. Thuban works a
69     bit better with a unicode build of wxPython but there are still
70     problems. (Bernhard Herzog)
71    
72     - Various raster data improvements. Among other things, translucent
73     images are now supported on a sufficiently recent wxWidgets (2.6).
74     Also, only the part of the window actually covered by the image is
75     drawn. (Jonathan Coles)
76    
77     - Improved PostGIS support (Bernhard Herzog):
78    
79     - support tables with multiple geometry columns. The user can
80     select which one to use
81    
82     - support tables with srids
83    
84     - tables don't have to have a column named "gid" anymore. The user
85     can select the column to use for ids
86    
87     - PostgreSQL views are supported too
88    
89     - support LINESTRING geometries
90    
91     - support more PostgreSQL versions. 7.4 works now.
92    
93     - Added support for sizable points (Jan-Oliver Wagner)
94    
95     - When loading a (moved) session where shapefiles cannot be found, ask
96     the user (Frank Koormann)
97    
98     - The middle mouse button can be used for panning now (Russell Nelson)
99    
100     - Give a warning when the projection selected for a layer is probably
101     wrong (Russell Nelson)
102    
103     - Updated shapelib
104    
105     - New or improved extensions:
106    
107     - A new extension which exports a map as SVG
108     (Markus Rechtien, Bernhard Reiter)
109    
110     - Improved WMS extension (Martin Schulze)
111    
112     - New Extension to dump bounding boxes of all shapes of the selected
113     layer (Frank Koormann)
114    
115     - New extension: umn_mapserver (Jan Schüngel)
116    
117     - New extension: OGR (Nina Hüffmeyer)
118    
119     - New Extension: mouseposition. Tool to collect mouse click positions
120     (map coordinates) in a dialog. (Frank Koormann)
121    
122     - Documentation:
123    
124     - Add some documentation of the internals of Thuban.
125     See Doc/technotes/
126    
127     - The thuban manual has been partly translated to German
128     (Jan-Oliver Wagner)
129    
130     - Updated translations:
131     Russian (Alex Shevlakov)
132    
133     - New translations:
134     Brazilian Portuguese (Eduardo Patto Kanegae)xb
135     Hungarian (Norbert Solymosi)
136    
137    
138 bh 2043 Changes in Thuban 1.0.0
139     =======================
140    
141     - Updated translations:
142    
143     Italian by Maurizio Napolitano
144     Spanish and French by Daniel Calvelo Aros
145     Russian by Alex Shevlakov
146    
147     - some minor bug fixes
148    
149    
150 bh 1997 Changes in Thuban 1.0rc1
151     ========================
152    
153     - Redering improvements
154    
155     Rendering the map in the main window does not freeze Thuban
156     completely anymore. While the rendering occurs the window is updated
157     regularly to show the progress and you can interact with the window
158     and thuban in general even when the rendering is not complete yet
159    
160     The map display is also faster in many cases now, especially when
161     doing classifictions.
162    
163     The renderes have a mechanism to define how new layer classes defined
164     in extensions can be rendered (see the new wms extension for an
165     example)
166    
167     - Added a few extensions in the Extensions sub-directory. Most of them
168 bh 2006 are experimental to varying extents. Note that the binary packages
169     might not contain all of these extensions.
170 bh 1997
171     - gns2shp
172    
173     Convert GNS (GEOnet Names Server) files to shapefiles. See
174     Extensions/gns2shp/gns2shp.py for more information
175    
176     - wms
177    
178     Use thuban as WMS client. See Extensions/wms/wms.py for more
179     information
180    
181     - importAPR
182    
183     Import a ArcView project file (.apr) and convert it to Thuban.
184    
185     - profiling
186    
187     For developers: perfomance measurement for the rendering code.
188     See Extensions/profiling/profiling.py for details.
189    
190     - drawshape
191    
192     This is a *very experimental* and potentially *dangerous* extension
193     to add shapes to a shapefile. Be careful with it as it may lead to
194     data loss. For more information, see Extensions/drawshape/README
195    
196     - A new command line option --enable-attribute-editing, which when
197     given turns on editing of attribute values in the identify view. It
198     only works on layers whose attribute data is stored in DBF files.
199     This experimental and may lead to data loss, so be careful when using
200     it.
201    
202     - EPSG projections
203    
204     Thuban now comes with two .proj files containing EPSG projections
205     (epsg.proj and epsg-deprecated.proj in Resources/Projections/). These
206     projections can be shown in the dialog with the new check boxes under
207     "Show EPSG".
208    
209     - Context menu in the legend window
210    
211     The legend window now has a context menu for most of the layer
212     commands
213    
214     - Localization updates
215    
216     The localization is now done with wxWindow's localization support and
217     thus deals automatically with character encoding transformations and
218     the standard dialogs are also translated properly if the wxWindows
219     .mo files are installed
220    
221     Updated translations for French and Spanish contributed by Daniel
222     Calvelo. Updated German translation
223    
224     - PostGIS improvements
225    
226     - Quote table and columns names properly.
227    
228     - The dialog deals better with duplicate connections (e.g. trying to
229     create a new connection when there already is a connection for the
230     same database)
231    
232     - Files written with the Windows version of Thuban can now be read by
233     the unix version. The other way round was already possible.
234    
235     - The shapefile handling code now uses shapelib 1.2.10
236    
237     - Thuban should work without problems and warnings with Python 2.3 now.
238    
239    
240 bh 1700 Changes in Thuban 0.9
241     =====================
242    
243     - An initial version of the Thuban User's Manual. Currently only the
244     XML sources and the images are shipped with the Thuban sources. The
245     binary distributions do not contain the document at this point. An
246     online version is available at
247     http://thuban.intevation.org/documentation.html
248    
249     - New Translations: German, Italian and Russian. The Italian and
250     Russion translations are based on 0.8.1 and therefore not quite up to
251     date. German is up to date, though. For 1.0 we intend to have a
252     translation period where all translations can be brought up to date.
253    
254     - PostGIS support. This feaure is still a bit experimental at this
255     point and is not very well tested yet. It should work PostgreSQL
256     7.2.1 and postgis 0.7 as that's what we tested it with. Newer
257     versions probably also work.
258    
259     The user as which the connection is established obviously needs
260     select permissions on any table to show and also on the
261     geometry_columns table.
262    
263     Known Issues:
264    
265     - Only four geometry types are currently supported: POINT,
266     MULTILINESTRING, POLYGON and MULTIPOLYGON.
267    
268     - Tables must have a gid column which is assumed to be a non-NULL
269     integer which uniquely identifies the row.
270    
271     - It's not optimized so some things may be very slow. For instance
272     the number of queries done could be reduced substantially
273     especially if you use classifications. Having an index on the gid
274     column can speed things up in that case. Note that at least older
275     versions shp2pgsql do not create such an index.
276    
277     - Renamed the subdirectory extensions to libraries. The name extensions
278     can now be used for a directory with Thuban extensions.
279    
280    
281     More changes in even more detail are listed in the ChangeLog file.

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