[mapserver-dev] Motion: Retire SDE Support for MapServer 7.0

[Daniel Morissette]

I have no strong position on this one, but since the code of this driver 
is unmaintained and a suitable alternative exists (through OGR), then 
I'd be at least +0 for removing it.

Daniel

On 2015-02-10 4:30 PM, Howard Butler wrote:
> All,
>
> As the former maintainer and current non-maintainer of the SDE MapServer driver, I would like to motion that we we retire it from MapServer for the upcoming release. There are three reasons to consider removal at this time:
>
> 1) Availability of the ArcSDE SDK is extremely low (can you even get ESRI to give it to you?)
> 2) Viability of direct-database query from PostGIS, Oracle, and SQL Server have obsoleted SDE
> 3) No current MapServer developers have the ability to test any code changes to the SDE driver.
>
> Howard
>
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