[mapserver-dev] Tile Access API

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 01:46:57PM -0400, Daniel Morissette wrote:
> Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> >>Yeah, I know what you're thinking, TileCache requires Python and that's 
> >>one more component to maintain when we already have MapServer installed.
> >
> >I don't consider this the important showstopper, though others certainly
> >do.
> >

The phrasing of my statement above was bad. My statement was meant to
read as "I don't consider this RFC good because I think that no one
should need to install TileCache, though others certainly do."

I understand all the reasons that people would do that: I suffer due to
many of them in my daily work. But there are reasons *unrelated* to
performance that this RFC makes sense, and that's the important part
here.

> Lots of developers seem to misunderstand the day to day reality of their 
> users.
> 
> There are lots (and more than you'd think) of users of MapServer and 
> related tools who have only one foot on the bright side and who work in 
> shops with a close IT department that keeps very tight control on the 
> servers. We had some of those 10 years ago and that's still the sad 
> reality today. It takes months (sometimes years?) of efforts for their 
> IT departments to review, approve and deploy new technologies. So once 
> they've managed to get MapServer through the process the last thing they 
> want is to have to get Python, PHP, and/or a bunch of scripts through 
> the IT approval process.
> 
> Funny enough, in many cases in those shops, any script written in VB or 
> .NET will make it through to the server without any problem.
> 
> >
> >Still wouldn't solve the problem of idiotproofing configuration, which
> >is the reason I'm in favor of the RFC.
> >
> 
> I guess that's the point I don't get. If the benefit of idiotproofing 
> the config of a tile server is higher than the performance costs then I 
> agree that there is value to this addition.
> 
> Daniel
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