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

[Tamas Szekeres]

+1 to remove.


Tamas


2008/11/4 Howard Butler <hobu.inc at gmail.com>:
> 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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>>
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