[mapserver-dev] mapmygis.c

[Stephen Woodbridge]

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!

+1, contingent on there not being a revolt on the users list for this 
action.