[mapserver-dev] mapmygis.c

[Daniel Morissette]

Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> 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.

+1 here too with the same caveat...

Daniel
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