Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:2492 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 20352 invoked from network); 21 Jun 2003 17:13:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.zend.com) (192.117.235.230) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 21 Jun 2003 17:13:56 -0000 Received: (qmail 23438 invoked from network); 21 Jun 2003 17:13:48 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO andi-home.zend.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 21 Jun 2003 17:13:48 -0000 Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20030621201722.02c34d00@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: andi@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 20:17:35 +0200 To: Sterling Hughes ,internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: <1056210210.26964.4.camel@hasele> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] removing bundled libmysql From: andi@zend.com (Andi Gutmans) References: <1056210210.26964.4.camel@hasele> At 11:43 AM 6/21/2003 -0400, 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. > >Speak now, or forever hold your peace. ;-) +1 from me. It's their loss more than it is ours. Andi