On 2011-10-17 19:55, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
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
I think that the Phobos database API needs to support database drivers
written by third part users, that can be easily plugged in, for exactly
the above mentioned reason.
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/Jacob Carlborg
