On Monday, October 17, 2011 09:38 Steve Teale wrote: > > PostgreSQL's protocol is stable since 2003, but MySQL's is not very > > friendly indeed. Phobos might follow opportunistic path and support > > direct access with recent MySQL versions and C wrapper for older ones. > > But it looks like the C wrapper approach for MySQL won't fly for Phobos > because of the GPL taint. MySQL support might have to be consigned to the > Deimos 'derived works' directory. Either that or Phobos only supports > versions > 5.xx.
However, if we go with an appropriately pluggable approach with the DB engines, then it should be perfectly possible to have a 3rd party library which provides a DB engine for mysql which you can then use with Phobos if your program is GPL or GPL-compatible. So, no it won't be in Phobos if we have to use the C headers, but that doesn't necssarily mean that it couldn't be used with Phobos' DB solution. - Jonathan M Davis
