Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:2485 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 84784 invoked from network); 21 Jun 2003 16:07:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO jdi.jdimedia.nl) (212.204.192.51) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 21 Jun 2003 16:07:24 -0000 Received: from jdi.jdimedia.nl (jdi.jdimedia.nl [212.204.192.51]) by jdi.jdimedia.nl (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id h5LG7MUl011125; Sat, 21 Jun 2003 18:07:23 +0200 Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 18:07:22 +0200 (CEST) X-X-Sender: derick@jdi.jdimedia.nl To: Sterling Hughes cc: internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: <1056210210.26964.4.camel@hasele> Message-ID: References: <1056210210.26964.4.camel@hasele> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] removing bundled libmysql From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) 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/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------