Re: removing bundled libmysql
| From: | Ilia A. | Date: | Sat, 21 Jun 2003 17:04:45 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: removing bundled libmysql | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.internals |
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On June 21, 2003 11:43 am, Sterling Hughes wrote:
> Hey,
>
> 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 The non-bunbled lib for 3.X series in most cases is a later (better?)
version then the one distributed with PHP by default.
Ilia