please do it we are using mysqlnd on some hundret domains with all sort of php-software since PHP 5.3.3 (the first 5.3 version we used) and thinking back how hard it was to get the fedora-srpm chnaged to build with mysqlnd my opinion is drop the libmysql-support completly
you named the main-reason for that: auto-tests supporting both without a real good reason will have permanently side-effects covered in bugreports and instead maintain two code-paths from the view of quality it would be better to optimize mysqlnd if there is something missing what i do not know now Am 02.09.2011 14:27, schrieb Johannes Schlüter: > Hi, > > when building PHP using > (I) ./configure --with-mysql --with-mysqli --with-pdo-mysql > you currently get a build using the system default libmysql, usually > in /us or > such. Alternatively PHP can be built using > (II) ./configure --with-mysqli=mysqlnd [...] > to build the MySQL extensions using the mysqlnd library. > > I would like to change mysqlnd's config9.m4 file to build PHP using > mysqlnd when being called in form (I). Users would still be able to > enforce libmysql by passing a path, like /usr. > > There are two main reasons I see for this: > a) Different libmysql versions have slightly different behavior, > which shows in our tests. We can't have both, a good test coverage > and cover all these differences. By using mysqlnd we have a clear > behavior every PHP developer can rely on. > b) We provide different extensions (pecl/mysqlnd_*) which > improve/extend mysqlnd functionality. By having mysqlnd as default > these are better usable by users. > > Opinions? > > johannes
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