Hi, as some of you probably know, I am (still :-( the maintainer of the DBD::mysql module. This is an XS module built on top of the libmysqlclient.
Since version 4, MySQL is also available as an embedded database. This is of course an interesting feature. To use the embedded database and not a remote database, you just link against another library. Thus it is very easy to build a version of DBD::mysql, which uses the embedded server. However, it is desirable to have the embedded module under a different name. For example, one would like to replicate from one database to another or similar. It would make much more sense to have a module DBD::mysql and a module DBD::mysqlEmbedded (for example). My question is whether MakeMaker does support such a case anyhow? Otherwise I would need to copy and edit all the current files, obviously an error prone and tedious task. Besides, that would mean additional maintenance in the future. Regards, Jochen
