[std.database]

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-10-17 20:07, simendsjo wrote:
> On 17.10.2011 19:46, Marco Leise wrote:
>> Am 17.10.2011, 18:38 Uhr, schrieb Steve Teale
>> <steve.teale at britseyeview.com>:
>>
>>>> PostgreSQL's protocol is stable since 2003, but MySQL's is not very
>>>> friendly indeed. Phobos might follow opportunistic path and support
>>>> direct access with recent MySQL versions and C wrapper for older ones.
>>>
>>> But it looks like the C wrapper approach for MySQL won't fly for Phobos
>>> because of the GPL taint. MySQL support might have to be consigned to
>>> the
>>> Deimos 'derived works' directory. Either that or Phobos only supports
>>> versions > 5.xx.
>>>
>>> Steve
>>
>> Do people not upgrade their database to MySQL 5? I never had to deal
>> with that and especially large complicated databases. If it is easy to
>> upgrade to MySQL 5 and it is faster and more secure there are probably
>> few *actively developed* projects accessing MySQL 4 DBs. (MySQL 5 is
>> pretty much exactly 6 years old now.)
>
> You'll always find people not upgrading technology for various reasons.
> We continue to use MySQL 4 at work for an internal legacy application
> because it just works and we _know_ upgrading will be a lot of work.
> And see how IE6 is still in use.
>
> I'm not advocating that D should strive to support legacy technologies
> though. I don't think Win98 or earlier are supported either.

We can start with supporting the latest version and if there is a demand 
for earlier versions those can be provided by third party or similar if 
they can't be included in Phobos.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg