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

[Stephan Meißl]

I join this line of thinking. So +0 from me.

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Stephan


On 02/11/2015 09:40 AM, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> 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