ODBC component licenses

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-11-10 23:24, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

> Yeah. Adding functionality to Phobos which is pure D is generally a good thing
> (though stuff which really isn't generally useful obviously shouldn't be in
> there). But adding stuff that requires additional dependencies is far more
> iffy. If the module is really self-contained and you can get away with using
> Phobos without linking in the library that it needs as long as you don't use
> it, then it's not necessarily a big deal. But if it's going to require that
> everyone using Phobos link it in and it's not standard on all systems, then it
> needs a really solid reason for being in Phobos. And if we get in a situation
> where we need to add extra linking commands to dmd itself (as we had to with
> librt) for each such library, then that becomes undesirable very quickly IMHO.

If dlopen is used to load a dynamic library then there shouldn't be any 
problem. It will be automatically loaded and only when needed.

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/Jacob Carlborg