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

[thomas bonfort]

+1 . The cost of reverting the commit in case someone wants to revive
the support should be quite low.

--
thomas

On 11 February 2015 at 13:41, Stephan Meißl <stephan at meissl.name> wrote:
> I join this line of thinking. So +0 from me.
>
> cu
> 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
>
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