Opened 20 years ago

Closed 16 years ago

#725 closed enhancement (wontfix)

IMS emmulation in the CGI

Reported by: sdlime Owned by: sdlime
Priority: lowest Milestone:
Component: MapServer CGI Version: unspecified
Severity: minor Keywords:
Cc: sgillies@…

Description (last modified by 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...

Change History (4)

comment:1 by sdlime, 20 years ago

Cc: pramsey@… added

comment:2 by sgillies@…, 20 years ago

Cc: sgillies@… added 
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?

comment:3 by sdlime, 20 years ago 

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

comment:4 by sdlime, 16 years ago

Description: modified (diff)
Resolution: → wontfix
Status: new → closed

Unnecessary with WMS/WFS/WCS...

Steve

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