[mapserver-dev] FW: MapServer enhancements/refactoring project

[Perry Nacionales]

Daniel,

What about documentation?  MapServer is finally getting a decent set of 
docs going for it.  Is this going to be all for naught and we have to 
start over?

-Perry

Daniel Morissette wrote:
> Kralidis,Tom [Ontario] wrote:
>>  
>>
>> Why can't we do this with libxml2 and libxslt in C?
>>
> [...]
>>
>> Why can't we do WFS-T in C?
>>
>
> We could possibly do some stuff libxml2 and libxslt in C, but at the 
> cost of performance. As we all know, libxml2 is bloated and slow on 
> large documents, that's why we've been using printf's to generate XML 
> in MapServer so far. This is also the #1 complaint of architecture 
> purists. OTOH, Java has very efficient XML streaming libraries that 
> would save us lots of trouble.
>
>>
>> I think this would call for a complete analysis of cost/return on
>> investment on a change like this.  And what the problems are (in detail)
>> that are driving this proposal.
>>
>
> Unfortunately time plays against us and we can't spend months doing 
> analysis and evaluating our options. As I wrote in my initial email, 
> one of the requirements is to be done by March 31st 2010 (i.e. only 
> one year from now) since the client is planning to launch their new 
> service on April 1st, 2010. Lots of work to do and very little time.
>
> Daniel