Thiago Macieira wrote: > Can you explain why this isn't done now? Why can't we build against the > MariaDB libraries and ship those, with their ability to connect to MySQL > servers?
FYI, this is exactly what Fedora (and I think also several other distributions) are already doing. Even legacy versions of Qt can be built against current MariaDB libraries with minimal patches: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/qt/blob/master/f/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.7-mariadb.patch https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/qt3/blob/master/f/qt-x11-free-3.3.8b-mariadb.patch Current Qt 5 (and I presume and hope, Qt 6) just works as shipped, i.e., it can be built against current MariaDB libraries without any patches. A separate MariaDB plugin would only make things more complicated and needlessly break backwards compatibility. Kevin Kofler _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
