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

[Perry Nacionales]

+1 for all the reasons you mentioned.

-Perry N
On Feb 10, 2015 3:30 PM, "Howard Butler" <howard at hobu.co> 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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