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

[Richard Greenwood]

Not being on the PSC my "vote" doesn't mean anything, but 7.0 certainly
seems like the time to cut the cord on SDE.

Rich

On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Lime, Steve D (MNIT) <
Steve.Lime at state.mn.us> wrote:

> 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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> mapserver-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of Howard Butler [
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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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Richard W. Greenwood, PLS
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