Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:99949 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 98267 invoked from network); 19 Jul 2017 20:07:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 19 Jul 2017 20:07:18 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=johannes.schlueter@oracle.com; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=johannes.schlueter@oracle.com; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain oracle.com from 141.146.126.69 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: johannes.schlueter@oracle.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 141.146.126.69 aserp1040.oracle.com Received: from [141.146.126.69] ([141.146.126.69:17774] helo=aserp1040.oracle.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id FA/9E-02884-5FBBF695 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2017 16:07:17 -0400 Received: from aserv0022.oracle.com (aserv0022.oracle.com [141.146.126.234]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id v6JK7DNw005249 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 19 Jul 2017 20:07:13 GMT Received: from aserv0121.oracle.com (aserv0121.oracle.com [141.146.126.235]) by aserv0022.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id v6JK7DOG010751 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 19 Jul 2017 20:07:13 GMT Received: from abhmp0011.oracle.com (abhmp0011.oracle.com [141.146.116.17]) by aserv0121.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id v6JK76AR028210; Wed, 19 Jul 2017 20:07:12 GMT Received: from kuechenschabe.fritz.box (/46.244.182.12) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Wed, 19 Jul 2017 13:07:05 -0700 Message-ID: <1500494823.16819.32.camel@oracle.com> To: "lists@rhsoft.net" , internals@lists.php.net Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 22:07:03 +0200 In-Reply-To: <2e8dfca3-051e-b03c-d163-cf7c00d07666@rhsoft.net> References: <2e8dfca3-051e-b03c-d163-cf7c00d07666@rhsoft.net> Organization: Oracle Corporation - MySQL Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.18.5.2-0ubuntu3.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Source-IP: aserv0022.oracle.com [141.146.126.234] Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Minimum MySQL version From: johannes.schlueter@oracle.com (Johannes =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Schl=FCter?=) On Di, 2017-07-18 at 21:42 +0200, lists@rhsoft.net wrote: > > Am 18.07.2017 um 21:37 schrieb Nikita Popov: > > > > I just found out that some of the PDO code contains MySQL version > > checks > > going all the way back to MySQL 3.22.30, which has been released in > > 2000. > > > > What is the minimum MySQL version we support? can I drop checks for > > MySQL > > 3.x and 4.x? > wouldn't it be time to remove all the artefacts before "mysqlnd" and > so drop any dependency of "libmysql" and/or "libmariadb" these days? Usage of libmysql can be beneficial in case there is a bug, also 3rd party plugins for non-standard authentication mechanisms might only exist for libmysql. From a maintainers perspective keeping compatibility is only limited work, we (Oracle) can keep doing. johannes