Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:2487 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 88511 invoked from network); 21 Jun 2003 16:14:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO milton.schell.de) (217.160.72.35) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 21 Jun 2003 16:14:34 -0000 Received: (qmail 15947 invoked by uid 501); 21 Jun 2003 16:14:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO eco.foo) (80.143.39.178) by kdserv.de with SMTP; 21 Jun 2003 16:14:33 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by eco.foo (Postfix) with ESMTP id 670D47B65; Sat, 21 Jun 2003 18:14:32 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 18:14:32 +0200 (CEST) X-X-Sender: sas@eco.foo 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: sascha@schumann.cx (Sascha Schumann) > 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. Go ahead. There are rumours that MySQL AB does not want to provide a license exemption. The only consequence is that we should not steer users into their hands through simplified deployment. Actually, we should warn users of MySQL 3 that they won't be able to use new versions of MySQL under the same conditions, and that they should better look at Interbase/PostgreSQL. - Sascha