Motion: remove MyGIS support from MapServer (was Re: [mapserver-dev] mapmygis.c)

[Howard Butler]

Here was one of our last attempts to kill it:

http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-dev/2004-August/006336.html

I can't find the message, but I recall making a motion to remove it  
too.  In the end, I was successful in removing one of my own features  
(native SDE raster support which eventually ended up in GDAL), but not  
mygis.

+1 on removing mapmygis.c

Howard

On Nov 4, 2008, at 2:19 PM, Daniel Morissette wrote:

> mapmygis.c has been bugging me for a while too for the same reasons  
> that you listed, but just in case, before we drop it, we should  
> probably probe the -users list and see if anyone still relies on or  
> feel strongly about it.
>
> Daniel
>
>
> Paul Ramsey wrote:
>> I come not to praise mapmygis.c, but to bury it.
>> - It has no maintainer.
>> - It operates on a model of spatial in MySQL (features in blobs) that
>> has been super-ceded by the official spatial implementation that has
>> now been there for 5 years.
>> - It confuses people into thinking that *it* is the real MySQL  
>> spatial
>> support in Mapserver, when the real support is via OGR.
>> - It is deeply ugly code, and now that the mappostgis.c code it was
>> based on is retired, I can freely say that. The longer it is there,
>> the more likely some unwitting soul will template something on it.
>> (See mapmssql2008.c)
>> I move that we re-move.
>> +1 Paul!
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