Re: Minimum MySQL version
| From: | Johannes Schlüter | Date: | Wed, 19 Jul 2017 20:07:03 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Minimum MySQL version | ||
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On Di, 2017-07-18 at 21:42 +0200, lists@rhsoft.net wrote:
>
> Am 18.07.2017 um 21:37 schrieb Nikita Popov:
> >
> > I just found out that some of the PDO code contains MySQL version
> > checks
> > going all the way back to MySQL 3.22.30, which has been released in
> > 2000.
> >
> > What is the minimum MySQL version we support? can I drop checks for
> > MySQL
> > 3.x and 4.x?
> wouldn't it be time to remove all the artefacts before "mysqlnd" and
> so drop any dependency of "libmysql" and/or "libmariadb" these days?
Usage of libmysql can be beneficial in case there is a bug, also 3rd
party plugins for non-standard authentication mechanisms might only
exist for libmysql. From a maintainers perspective keeping
compatibility is only limited work, we (Oracle) can keep doing.
johannes