<p dir="ltr">+1 for all the reasons you mentioned. </p>
<p dir="ltr">-Perry N</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 10, 2015 3:30 PM, "Howard Butler" <<a href="mailto:howard@hobu.co">howard@hobu.co</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">All,<br>
<br>
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:<br>
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1) Availability of the ArcSDE SDK is extremely low (can you even get ESRI to give it to you?)<br>
2) Viability of direct-database query from PostGIS, Oracle, and SQL Server have obsoleted SDE<br>
3) No current MapServer developers have the ability to test any code changes to the SDE driver.<br>
<br>
Howard<br>
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