+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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: mapmygis.c > To: mapserver-dev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 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! > _______________________________________________ > mapserver-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users > _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
