On 9 November 2017 at 15:45, <p...@cpan.org> wrote: > On Thursday 09 November 2017 14:26:01 Peter Rabbitson wrote: >> On 11/09/2017 01:46 PM, Noel Butler wrote: >> >On 09/11/2017 21:32, p...@cpan.org wrote: >> > >> >> >> >>>What the complaints in this thread are focused on is what the *users* >> >>>want. >> >and the users want now, or will need in the near future, to build with >> >latest, stable and recommended versions of MariaDB and MySQL. >> >> Which is a great thing to want. I want this too. This is not what the thread >> is about. >> >> The problem stems from Pali mashing together 3(!)* independent concerns, and >> presenting them as an "all or nothing" proposition: >> 1. Inability to build against latest libmysql libs >> 2. Several security fixes >> 3. Entirely redefining how unicode is handled throughout the stack > > As I already wrote, doing active development on code of DBD::mysql is > hard or probably impossible if you want to have that old behavior. > > So fixing more parts of code or adding new features would lead to > breaking that behavior or would be PITA for anybody who would need to > guarantee that it would not be broken again in future. > > Moreover DBD::mysql itself (C part of code) misuse libmysql resp. > libmariadb API which leads to segfaults (or silent memory corruption) > when new mariadb is used. And this would be needed properly fixed if you > want to support mariadb. > > So I guess it is better that compilation is failing. Users would not be > surprised that driver really damaged data. And not just double encoded > something to UTF-8 (due to misusing API) which has always 1:1 inverse > operation and can be fixed. > > This part would not be simple to fix, there would be needed to of > changes in whole driver, find all places where driver touch mariadb C > structures... This is very good candidate which can break that old > DBD::mysql behavior of handling blobs.
Pali is there a concise summary of what we are arguing about here? Thanks, Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"
