[mapserver-dev] Proposed maporaclespatial.c header...

Steve Lime Steve.Lime at dnr.state.mn.us
Fri Mar 14 15:17:25 EDT 2008


Aversion to really long source file names is driving the change... Plus folks seem to use SDO as
the common way of referring to Oracle Spatial so this would be inline with that. IMHO that swiching
map.h to mapserver.h was far more significant and doesn't seem to have cause many problems.

Steve

>>> On 3/14/2008 at 1:40 PM, in message <47DAC695.8020304 at pobox.com>, Frank
Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
> Steve Lime wrote:
>> I'm +1 as well. I'd also want to change OracleSpatial to SDO in the version 
> output and build
>> parameters (e.g. USE_SDO) as well.
> 
> Folks,
> 
> What is driving this renaming?  It seems like unnecessary churn that will
> cause minor problems in the future.  Harder to migrate patches.  Tutorials
> that talk about SUPPORTS=ORACLESPATIAL will be wrong, etc.
> 
> The header change looks fine to me.
> 
> Best regards,



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