[mapguide-internals] Permanently drop the ArcSDE provider?

[Zac Spitzer]

I agree, if someone who is using this provider wants to step up to build
and maintain it, that is an option

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Gabriele Monfardini
<gabrimonfa at gmail.com> wrote:
>> For those who don't know, the ArcSDE provider has been omitted from the last
>> few pre-final builds of MapGuide Open Source 2.4 for the simple reason that
>> the ESRI SDK needed to build this provider is not free (libre or beer).
>>
>> If we want to be a truly self-sustaining project and not rely on Autodesk
>> for timely binary releases on any upstream components, we need to be able
>> build the entire stack using completely free (libre or beer) tools and
>> libraries.
>>
>> Since the ArcSDE provider does not fit in this category, I propose we just
>> drop the ArcSDE provider altogether from the final, and future releases of
>> MapGuide Open Source. Those who need a functional ArcSDE provider can seek
>> an external build resource to provide an out-of-band release of the FDO
>> provider or wait until Autodesk makes a new release of FDO with the ArcSDE
>> provider.
>
> I do not use ArcSDE provider thus my opinion may be biased.
>
> I completely agree with Jackie.
> An open source project need to be able to build its components using free tools.
>
> And since is responsible of its code, it cannot provide help/fix/bug
> track for code that cannot manage properly.
>
> Regards,
>
> Gabriele
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Zac Spitzer
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