On 17.10.2011 19:46, Marco Leise wrote:
Am 17.10.2011, 18:38 Uhr, schrieb Steve Teale
<steve.te...@britseyeview.com>:
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.
Steve
Do people not upgrade their database to MySQL 5? I never had to deal
with that and especially large complicated databases. If it is easy to
upgrade to MySQL 5 and it is faster and more secure there are probably
few *actively developed* projects accessing MySQL 4 DBs. (MySQL 5 is
pretty much exactly 6 years old now.)
You'll always find people not upgrading technology for various reasons.
We continue to use MySQL 4 at work for an internal legacy application
because it just works and we _know_ upgrading will be a lot of work.
And see how IE6 is still in use.
I'm not advocating that D should strive to support legacy technologies
though. I don't think Win98 or earlier are supported either.
