Re: removing bundled libmysql

On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Sterling Hughes wrote: > 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. +1 Derick -- "Interpreting what the GPL actually means is a job best left to those that read the future by examining animal entrails." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl/ International PHP Magazine http://php-mag.net/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------