Jesse does refer to his from udig in a preference page; I am not sure
if he did that because it was there or if there was a useful reason.

My thought would be to kill it; (noting that qix is not ESRI standard
either right; just happens to also be used by map server right?).

Jody

On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Andrea Aime <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm wondering what the reactions would be to removing completely the
> rtree indexing code from the shapefile datastore.
> Rationale:
> - it's not standard, opposed to the quadtree .qix format that is
>   used by ogr/mapserver as well
> - I never used it, but rumors are that it's not really working
>   either?
> - it's sucking significant built time
>
> In short, it does not seem to be pulling its weight and no one
> has touched it in... years?
>
> Opinions?
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
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