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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Make mysqlnd default over libmysql in 5.4
From: rasmus@lerdorf.com (Rasmus Lerdorf)

On 09/02/2011 05:27 AM, Johannes Schlüter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> when building PHP using
>   (I) ./configure --with-mysql --with-mysqli --with-pdo-mysql
> you currently get a build using the system default libmysql, usually
> in /us or
> such. Alternatively PHP can be built using
>  (II) ./configure --with-mysqli=mysqlnd [...]
> to build the MySQL extensions using the mysqlnd library.
> 
> I would like to change mysqlnd's config9.m4 file to build PHP using
> mysqlnd when being called in form (I). Users would still be able to
> enforce libmysql by passing a path, like /usr.
> 
> There are two main reasons I see for this:
>   a) Different libmysql versions have slightly different behavior,
>      which shows in our tests. We can't have both, a good test coverage
>      and cover all these differences. By using mysqlnd we have a clear
>      behavior every PHP developer can rely on.
>   b) We provide different extensions (pecl/mysqlnd_*) which
>      improve/extend mysqlnd functionality. By having mysqlnd as default
>      these are better usable by users.
> 
> Opinions?

I was actually going to suggest doing this in 5.4 and trunk but didn't
get around to writing the email yet.

-Rasmus