[mapserver-dev] Drop support for ancient GDAL (GDAL < 1.5.0)?

[Even Rouault]

Le lundi 05 mars 2012 16:04:03, Daniel Morissette a écrit :
> On 12-03-03 7:17 AM, Even Rouault wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > There are quite a few places in MapServer code that attempt to support
> > building against GDAL<  1.5.0 with various #ifdef. I think this is
> > unnecessary, and we could happily drop support for such antiquated GDAL
> > versions (for reference: Debian Lenny, the oldstable, ships with GDAL
> > 1.5.2) for MapServer 6.2.
> > 
> > Related ticket and patch : http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/4224
> 
> No objection here, but as i just wrote in the ticket, if we do this then
> we should probably also update mapogr.cpp to remove blocks of code for
> version < 1.5.0

Good point. I only grepped on .c files, not on .cpp files. Indeed, mapogr.cpp 
was the file that most needed cleanup.