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

Steve Lime Steve.Lime at dnr.state.mn.us
Fri Mar 14 15:21:51 EDT 2008


I will say that this is not a big deal so if folks aren't ok with renaming then no biggie...

>>> On 3/14/2008 at 2:17 PM, in message <47DA88F4.5157.008F.0 at dnr.state.mn.us>,
"Steve Lime" <Steve.Lime at dnr.state.mn.us> wrote:
> 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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