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

[Lime, Steve D (MNIT)]

Looking for a bit broader input on this idea. OGR supports SDE too so that's another mechanism for users to use SDE with MapServer 7.0 and up...

Steve

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From: mapserver-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mapserver-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of Howard Butler [howard at hobu.co]
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2015 3:30 PM
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Subject: [mapserver-dev] Motion: Retire SDE Support for MapServer 7.0

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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