MapServer Oracle - MS or OGR?

[William Kyngesburye]

I'm wondering how MapServer's builtin Oracle support is different  
from OGR's?  Feature support and performance.

I would rather use Oracle from GDAL.  My concern is that Oracle  
support is fixed into the MapServer binary, either it has it or it  
doesn't.  No plugin mechanism in MapServer (or is there?).  If it  
does, a user must install the Oracle Instant Client to use MapServer  
even if they don't use Oracle (tho there is the weak link trick in  
Darwin).  But with OGR, one should be able to build Oracle support as  
a plugin, much like the GRASS plugin (I plan to try it for my next  
GIS Libs for Mac OS X).

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