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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Make mysqlnd default over libmysql in 5.4
From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine)

Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> On 09/02/2011 01:17 PM, Lester Caine wrote:
>> >  Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
>>> >>  I was actually going to suggest doing this in 5.4 and trunk but didn't
>>> >>  get around to writing the email yet.
>> >
>> >  It would still be nice to be able to simply switch off MySQL for those
>> >  of us who do not have it installed ...
>> >  It gets annoying when PHP forces the installation of MySQL in a
>> >  distribution and then prevents disabling it. It is another example of
>> >  why a more modular approach does make sense!
> I have no idea what you mean. We don't force MySQL in any way.
> If you grab the PHP code and do: ./configure&&  make
> there is absolutely no MySQL. You have to explictly do --with-mysql to
> get MySQL support just like you have to enable other non-default extensions.
>
> What the Oracle/MySQL guys are suggesting is simply that when you do
> specify --with-mysql the default should be mysqlnd.

All builds seem to have mysqlnd included by default? So that has to be tested on 
every installation even if it's not going to be used? And I've hit problems with 
distributions needing MySQL because of a dependency on mysqlnd.

I know we have had the discussion before, but if it is a general library for all 
databases then call it something else, if it's specific for MySQL then it only 
needs to be installed when MySQL is available on a system?

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