[mapserver-dev] [EXTERNAL] Re: Motion: Retire SDE Support for MapServer 7.0

[Smith, Michael ERDC-RDE-CRREL-NH]

I'm +1 on this.

Mike



On 2/11/15, 8:50 AM, "Daniel Morissette" <dmorissette at mapgears.com> wrote:

>I have no strong position on this one, but since the code of this driver
>is unmaintained and a suitable alternative exists (through OGR), then
>I'd be at least +0 for removing it.
>
>Daniel
>
>On 2015-02-10 4:30 PM, Howard Butler wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> As the former maintainer and current non-maintainer of the SDE
>>MapServer driver, I would like to motion that we we retire it from
>>MapServer for the upcoming release. There are three reasons to consider
>>removal at this time:
>>
>> 1) Availability of the ArcSDE SDK is extremely low (can you even get
>>ESRI to give it to you?)
>> 2) Viability of direct-database query from PostGIS, Oracle, and SQL
>>Server have obsoleted SDE
>> 3) No current MapServer developers have the ability to test any code
>>changes to the SDE driver.
>>
>> Howard
>>
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