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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 11:43 PM, Lester Caine wrote:
> 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?

Which general library? We are talking about mysqlnd which is obviously
only for MySQL.

And what do you mean by "all builds" ?

We don't do builds, the distributions do builds and we can't really
control what they choose to include by default, but most of the ones I
have seen have a separate php-mysql package.

I guess you may be exclusively talking about Windows builds and that has
absolutely nothing to do with our current discussion of whether
--with-mysql should point to libmysql or libmysqlnd by default.

-Rasmus