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

[Steve Lime]

Ditto, +1 (and mark as targeted for removal in 5.2.x headers)...

>>> On 11/4/2008 at 5:58 PM, in message
<f3b73b7d0811041558h4f843876y608a718ab174b4ec at mail.gmail.com>, "Tamas Szekeres"
<szekerest at gmail.com> wrote:
> +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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