[gdal-dev] arcsde

[Jachym Cepicky]

Thank you Even, will look into it

Removing SDE from list of supported formats makes sense

J

pá 22. 11. 2019 v 21:42 odesílatel Even Rouault
<even.rouault at spatialys.com> napsal:
>
> Jachym,
>
> Some more info at https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/ArcSDE
>
> from what I remember from noise captured here and there during last years:
> - ESRI has stopped distributing the ArcSDE SDK in "recent" versions. So you have to
> be one the "happy few" that have still a copy of it to be able to - try to - compile the driver
> - looking at the commit history, the person who has last pushed a fix in this
> driver, and presumably compiled it while doing so, was Tamas in 2012. Since
> then all commits into it have likely been done in a blind way (grep-style replacement, etc)
> Perhaps it still builds, by chance... ?
>
> Not GDAL, but you might find it interesting to read:
> https://knowledge.safe.com/articles/73399/esri-legacy-arcsde-sde30-deprecation.html
>
> Probably this driver and its raster counterpart should just be removed.
> Unless someone says "eh I still use it, it compiles and runs fine"
>
> Good luck !
>
> Even
>
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