To make it clear: it is not acceptable/not a usable solution for us if it is a requirement that a MariaDB server is installed on user's system. The client (in case SQLyog - but it could be any client) should work for connection to remote servers with no server at all installed on client machine.
-- Peter On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 8:29 PM, Peter Laursen <[email protected]> wrote: > OK .. we will check this again. > > But in principle we want (always) not to have any external dependencies in > our prorams/apllications at at all. We link statically everything to the > extend possible. People should download and install SQlyog with a single > click and it will just work. PERIOD! :-) That is what Windows users expect > from an installer. How do we accomplish this with the MariaDB API? Compile > it as a .lib/.dll and bundle it with our installer and let the installer > copy it into the installation directory? Or should what you describe here > happen at compile-time (linking statically)? Also please remember that > SQLyog is a Windows program and our compiler is Visual Studio (2010 > version, currently). > > Maybe you can provide *Windowssand Visual Studio pecific* guidelines?. > > Also (BTW) 1- 1½ years ago I asked similar questions and the only reply I > had was (very abstractly) that MariaDB's mplementation was far superior to > Oracle's. I was actually *despearately* asking for help at that time. The > reply ("we are the best") was very little helpful and we have already lost > significant business due to this. > > Anyway, I wili ask our developer team to recover as much information as > possible due to this. > > -- Peter > > On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 7:49 PM, Sergei Golubchik <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi, Peter! >> >> On Oct 13, Peter Laursen wrote: >> > Well .. where will I find it documented how to use it with Oracle-MySQL >> > configured for their LDAP authenticaton setup? The same code that worked >> > with oracles API does not work with the MariaDB API. >> >> There's only one difference that comes to my mind. >> >> Oracle-MySQL cleartext plugin is integral part of the client library, >> it's statically compiled into it. In MariaDB it's a separate plugin - >> which is loaded automatically on demand, but you still need to make sure >> you set the plugin-dir path correctly. >> >> There's nothing else I can think of, our test suite verifies that >> cleartext plugin exists and that it actually works, so I don't think >> we've broken it somehow. >> >> Regards, >> Sergei >> >> >
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