MS RFC 8: Pluggable External Feature Layer Providers

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 10/26/05, Jani Averbach <javerbach at extendthereach.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to ask MS TSC to vote for this proposal. I am sorry that this
> came so late, but if this passes, it will be ready and implemented for coming 4.8
> before feature freeze.

Jani,

My only comment is that I think you ought to copy CPLGetSymbol
into MapServer so the plugin mechanism works even without GDAL.
Functions copied (and renamed) from GDAL/port should be placed
in mapcpl.c.

+1

Best regards,
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