Motion: Include MS SQL Server 2008 Native Driver in 5.2

[Howard Butler]

On Nov 12, 2007, at 5:09 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:

> Howard Butler wrote:
>> All,
>> I would like to motion to include a native driver for Microsoft SQL  
>> Server 2008 in time for the MapServer 5.2 release.  The driver was  
>> developed by I.S. Consulting, it exists (and would continue to) as  
>> a plugin, links against the ODBC libs, and is Windows-only (there's  
>> a chance it could be made to work elsewhere).  I will take  
>> responsibility for maintenance of the driver for the foreseeable  
>> future (patches graciously accepted, however :) ).
>> For the corresponding MapServer 5.2 MS4W release, I expect that we  
>> will include the msplugin_mssql2008.dll in a similar fashion as the  
>> SDE and soon-to-be-built Oracle plugin drivers.
>> Assuming no vetos (Tom K :P ), I will include the driver and  
>> modifications makefile.vc to build it as a plugin in trunk on  
>> Wednesday.
>
> +1
>
> Will you also be updating relavent documentation about it?  Like the
> Vector Data Access howto?
>

Yes, of course. Forgot about that :)

Howard