Re: removing bundled libmysql

From: Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 15:59:12 +0000
Subject: Re: removing bundled libmysql
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+1 > I'm putting this message out as a feeler. I'm going to go ahead and > remove the mysql library from the PHP source tree. This won't affect > the extension, it simply means we won't be bundling the *library* with > PHP anymore. This is in a large part due to MySQL's decision to switch > to using the GPL for their client libraries as well. Linkage will still > be available, but we can't ship the GPL library, and the MySQL 3.2.23 > library can't connect to MySQL 4.1 servers, rendering it broken.

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