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

[Stephen Woodbridge]

I'll echo Daniel's thoughts on this. +0 on removing it. I might be a 
little closer to the +1  given that we can not test it either, because 
that implies it is an issue waiting to happen and it makes some sense to 
push users to the ogr solution.

-Steve W

On 2/11/2015 9:35 AM, Smith, Michael ERDC-RDE-CRREL-NH wrote:
> I'm +1 on this.
>
> Mike
>
>
>
> On 2/11/15, 8:50 AM, "Daniel Morissette" <dmorissette at mapgears.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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>>
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