[mapserver-users] mapmygis.c

[Umberto Nicoletti]

+1
it seems that the oldest bug matching mygis is from 2005, therefore I
doubt we have hardly any user for this component.

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Paul Ramsey <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca> wrote:
> Do you use the MyGIS feature of Mapserver?
>
>  --with-mygis[=ARG]      Include MyGIS Support (ARG=yes/path to mysql_config)
>
> If you do, please speak up, because I am making a motion to the
> developers list that we remove this very old, obscure feature. This is
> not about MySQL Spatial support, which exists, and will continue to
> exist, via the OGR driver. It's about the old MyGIS feature, which
> predates MySQL Spatial, and stores geometry in MySQL blobs.
>
> Paul
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Paul Ramsey <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca>
> Subject: mapmygis.c
> To: mapserver-dev <mapserver-dev at lists.osgeo.org>
>
> I come not to praise mapmygis.c, but to bury it.
>
> - It has no maintainer.
> - It operates on a model of spatial in MySQL (features in blobs) that
> has been super-ceded by the official spatial implementation that has
> now been there for 5 years.
> - It confuses people into thinking that *it* is the real MySQL spatial
> support in Mapserver, when the real support is via OGR.
> - It is deeply ugly code, and now that the mappostgis.c code it was
> based on is retired, I can freely say that. The longer it is there,
> the more likely some unwitting soul will template something on it.
> (See mapmssql2008.c)
>
> I move that we re-move.
>
> +1 Paul!
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