[Community] PrimaGIS 0.5.0 release

[Kai Hänninen]

Hi all,

I'm happy to announce that I just released PrimaGIS 0.5.0.

As with the recent PCL and ZCO releases, we are holding off making a
bigger announcement until January 2nd to get better coverage as many
people are away during the holidays.

You can download PrimaGIS 0.5.0 from:

  http://gispython.org/downloads/zope/PrimaGIS-0.5.0.tar.gz

In addition to lots of bug fixes and new features, the 0.5.0 release
contains (under PrimaGIS/doc/user_manual) the first edition of the
PrimaGIS User Manual, so please make sure to check it out! 

Thanks to everyone who helped with making the 0.5.0 release and happy
holidays!

cheers,
Kai



Changelog:

0.5.0 (21.12.2005)
--------------------

Bug fixes
 * Ticket #5: PrimaGISDataLayer reports invalid map extent when it has
   no features
 * Ticket #6: Empty PrimaGISDataLayers prevent the map from rendering
 * Ticket #21: Using the JavaScript rubber-band zoom crashes IE in some
   circumstances
 * Ticket #22: Imagemap() pop-up offset
 * Ticket #23: Map zoom/resize interference
 * Ticket #24: Positioned coordinates are miscalculated in Opera 8.5
 * Ticket #25: PrimaGISDataLayer SRS field is ignored
 * Ticket #26: List of PrimaGISView showing 1 item
 * Ticket #60: Invalid JSON serialization for sticky popups in map view
 * Ticket #63: PrimaGIS fails to render maps with transparent
   background.
 * Ticket #65: 8-bit characters break after AJAX update
 * Ticket #68: 0.4.0 to 0.5.0 migration: pg-bbox is float when string is
   expected
 * Ticket #66: PrimaGIS class renamed to PrimaGISMap.


 Features

 * Integrated the MochiKit Javascript library
   (http://www.mochikit.org/) that is used for all AJAX communication
   and DOM manipulation.
 * Integrated json-py (http://sourceforge.net/projects/json-py/) for
   JSON serialization.
 * Plone 2.1 support.
 * Ability to have PrimaGISDataLayers in different SRS from the map.
 * Orderable legend and layer box contents.
 * Layer preview in PrimaGISLayer and PrimaGISDataLayer.
 * Ability to have descriptions for the user selectable map sizes.
 * Clarified and elaborated Archetypes field descriptions.
 * Initial Google Earth / KML support for PrimaGISDataLayers.
 * Interfaces for all PrimaGIS objects.
 * Renamed page templates to avoid clashing with other projects
   (mainly PloneWorldKit).
 * New feature attributes for PrimaGISDataLayer. The supported
   attributes are ID, TITLE, TYPE, CREATOR, CREATED and MODIFIED. The
   old FID and FTITLE are still available, but deprecated and will be
   removed in PrimaGIS 0.6.
 * Better unit testing coverage (93%).
 * Refactored PrimaGIS API (see interfaces.py for documentation)
 * Migration code to help upgrading from 0.4 to 0.5.

For details on the changes in 0.5.0, see the following posts at the
PrimaGIS website:
 * http://www.primagis.fi/news/dev_news_2005_1
 * http://www.primagis.fi/news/dev_news_2005_2
 * http://www.primagis.fi/news/dev_news_2005_3


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