On Di, 2017-07-18 at 21:42 +0200, li...@rhsoft.net wrote: > > Am 18.07.2017 um 21:37 schrieb Nikita Popov: > > > > I just found out that some of the PDO code contains MySQL version > > checks > > going all the way back to MySQL 3.22.30, which has been released in > > 2000. > > > > What is the minimum MySQL version we support? can I drop checks for > > MySQL > > 3.x and 4.x? > wouldn't it be time to remove all the artefacts before "mysqlnd" and > so drop any dependency of "libmysql" and/or "libmariadb" these days?
Usage of libmysql can be beneficial in case there is a bug, also 3rd party plugins for non-standard authentication mechanisms might only exist for libmysql. From a maintainers perspective keeping compatibility is only limited work, we (Oracle) can keep doing. johannes -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
