Hi, due to the fact that the pre-built MYSQL plugin can no longer be shipped with the Qt installer we get a lot of questions in the forum why it's not shipped anymore and how to build this driver from the sources. We already tried to improve the documentation for it but it's not an ideal solution and generates a lot of annoyance to the user.
Therefore I though it would be better to create a new plugin for MariaDB even the MYSQL plugin works fine with MariaDB (and vice versa afaik) - this way it should be possible to provide a pre-compiled plugin again. Creating this plugin is easy as the code for MYSQL and MariaDB is basically the same ( see https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/283579 ) But there are still some open questions: - do we want to have a separate plugin for MariaDB? - do we need to split the sources for the MariaDB and MYSQL plugin? - should they be co-installable (since they use the same library names this may not work that easily) - do we need a small paragraph in the documentation why we can't ship it anymore and that MariaDB should be preferred? Christian _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development