Hello, > Experience told us that > having extra args on "options" lines is not the easiest thing to handle > in the long run. > Do you or anyone else have any preference > or any strong reason for either choice ?
As a new major release is soon to be released (1.5.0), I would be even more strict : MySQL <= 4.0 are not very common these days, so I would change default check to use Nenad Patch, and create a new option mysql40-check that use the old auth. For a vast majority of users, there would be no change needed and it will work for future MySQL/Maria versions. We can provide a mysql40-check option for very old server to keep running, and document it in "major 1.50 changes that could break your app". My 2 cents, Olivier
