Raphael, it may be a good time to rething mysqlnd inclusion. SSL and compression is supported in the version in the unstable.
Personally I dislike the idea of having private mysql library in the PHP, but if it helps the users... Another option would be to package php5-mysql and php5-mysqlnd as separate conflicting packages, so users can chose. O. On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 17:50, Raphael Geissert <geiss...@debian.org> wrote: > On 5 April 2010 05:54, Alexander Schories <alexan...@schories.com> wrote: >> i understand that compression and SSL for MySQL are yet missing. >> However, they might not be used widely on most debian installations - >> but they are still very important features, i agree. > > SSL _is_ widely used in certain setups I work on. The alternative is > to setup an ssh tunnel but it implies more work when upgrading, and > can not always be used depending on the use case (as it requires > access to both the client and the server). > >> I also haven't expected to see this feature in the upcoming debian >> release, but in the experimental/unstable trees. > > Changes that end in the testing and later stable distributions go > through unstable. Since there is no real benefit so far, there's no > reason to spend time preparing, uploading and maintaining packages > using mysqlnd. > > Complementing the list of obvious differences already mentioned by > Ondrej, there have been reports about certain behaviour changes (like > defaulting to something different than what libmysqlclient defaults > to, etc). They are being fixed, yes, but that doesn't mean it is > ready. > > Cheers, > -- > Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer > www.debian.org - get.debian.net > > > > _______________________________________________ > pkg-php-maint mailing list > pkg-php-ma...@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-php-maint > -- Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org> http://blog.rfc1925.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
