Enable mysqlnd as default backend (not about enabling mysql by default)

Pierre Joye kirjoitti:

Hi,

Would it not easier and better to have mysqlnd as default backend for
the mysql extensions (pdo, mysqli and mysql) when the configure option
are used without value? I can already imagine the maintenance pains
and the debugging nightmare for our users while working with a buggy
libmysql instead of mysqlnd.

Current status of mysqlnd does not warrant it being default. Just check the bug
database..

--Jani

Hi,

Would it not easier and better to have mysqlnd as default backend for
the mysql extensions (pdo, mysqli and mysql) when the configure option
are used without value? I can already imagine the maintenance pains
and the debugging nightmare for our users while working with a buggy
libmysql instead of mysqlnd.

Please note that it is only about using myslqnd by default, not about
enabling mysqlnd by default (a vote has been done already on that and
rejected).

Well atm I would prefer to stick with our current "plan". That being
said I think in the end it will be the distro vendors that decide what
will happen anyways. Bringing us back to the entire topic of the need
for us to build better communication channels to them, so that we are
in the loop about their needs and decisions and a way to better help
them make the right decisions.

regards,
Lukas Kahwe Smith
mls@pooteeweet.org

I would appreciate if the bug database could distinguish between feature
requests and bugs.

it can, but then it gets even worst as you lost the category... a
feature request being a category.

We could apply the same workaround as we did for docs, use a status..

-Hannes