IMS emmulation in the CGI

[sdlime]

This is just so the idea of porting Paul's IMS emmulation script from Perl to C
doesn't get lost. A great idea if you ask me...

[sgillies@…]

I think there are at least 2 risks:

1) An out-of-the-box emulator could attract a bunch of new users, but unless it
   has almost all the features of ArcIMS there is the risk of disappointing the
   new users and hurting the MapServer "brand".

   The refractions emulator and my Python IMS facade have the luxury of
   implementing a subset of the ArcIMS features without apology.  I don't know
   if MapServer has that luxury.

2) It seems to be a bit confrontational.  ESRI may tolerate a few Perl
   and Python emulators, but its ArcXML is not exactly open.  Can they, would
   they contest its use?

[sdlime]

You may be right. We'll certainly have to chat about this should anyone ever 
desire to do this. Right now it's just an idea.

Steve

[sdlime]

Unnecessary with WMS/WFS/WCS...

Steve