[mapguide-internals] Raster provider problems...

[Jason Birch]

Hi all,
 
I'm concerned about the lack of discussion of the change which resulted in this:
http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/ticket/39 <http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/ticket/39> 
 
If GDAL is not thread safe, nor easily made thread-safe (which I imagine could easily be the case since it relies on external libraries) then we're going to have a lot of upset users.  I know that it pretty much dead-ends me at 1.1 until it is resolved.  
 
I am also worried that this oversight happened, considering that at least some folks were aware of the single-threaded nature of the GDAL provider. Multithreading was mentioned as a benefit of the ADSK raster provider at AU.
 
If MapGuide requires a certain level of implementation from FDO providers but does not test against the full suite of providers or at least publish and maintain this minimum compliance level, we are going to find ourselves in this situation again.
 
Jason