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

[Even Rouault]

Le mercredi 11 février 2015 15:40:11, Stephen Woodbridge a écrit :
> 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.

Note: all arguments given by Howard regarding the MapServer SDE plugin apply 
as well to the OGR SDE one... Last (non automated) commit in it was 2 years 
ago.

> 
> -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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