Just a quick progress report. Since it was clear that my original ideas for a MySQL D interface were not going to make it into Phobos at least because of license issues, I have been investigating the use of the published MySQL client/server protocol (this was expressly removed from GPL, if it could ever have belonged there in the first place, some time ago.)
The results are encouraging, and I am pretty well back to the point I had reached using the C API, but now without files derived from GPL material, linking to a library, and mimicry of the C API methods. In the course of going over the whole thing again, and with a knowledge now of how the MySQL client/server relationship works, I think I may have improved the interface, even in its present experimental form. Steve
