Daniel Morgan wrote:
I have replied to you inline.
As I.
Great! We need some good testers to find the bugs and write tests.
I'll do my best.
"Specifically, somewhere where I can get any corrent documentation on how this .dll should be used?" I'm not sure what .dll you are talking about. Are you talking about the Mono.Data.MySql.dll assembly or the MySQL native client library?
I think I need to understand better what clients are available, and why there may be two (or more) written for .NET in C# and under GPL.
There is Mono.Data.MySQL. Coded in C# and currently 'heavily' under development, written by Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya, Ravi Pratap and Brad Merrill. Under GPL.
Is this the one which uses the libmySQL.dll and linmysqlclient.so?
Or is this the one which is pure C#, but may suffer in the future as it may fall behind the MySQL protocol?
Is this the official 'mono' MySQL API you refered to?
There is also http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysqlnet/ which is also GPL. Also C#. Written by Jun Su, Reggie Burnett and Adam Hunger. This currently shows no files, so i can't look at it. This currently has problems with Mono, but you have a working version.
There is another .NET MySQL driver written in C# by Manuel Lucas Vi�as Livschitz, also GPL. Is this the same one, I can't seem to find the page where I downloaded this.
There is the one from http://www.einfodesigns.com/. Not GPL.
This is the ONLY official .NET API from MySQL on http://www.mysql.com/portal/software/html/software-32-1.html. Which seems odd as MySQL seem to encourage the stong use of GPL API's.
If you can enlighten me a little, I would be greatful.
Ben
The MySQL provider in Mono right now uses a native client shared library: on
Windows, this shared library is libmySQL.dll and on Linux, it is
libmysqlclient.so
A MySQL provider written in 100% C# would be better for performance reasons,
but that would mean we would have to keep up with the client/server protocol
used for MySQL database access. At least with MySQL's native client
library, the API is stable.
There is a GPL'ed MySQL provider in sourceforge.net and works on .NET, but
it does not work on Mono due to problems in I/O or networking (I assume)
right now. I have a modified version on my hard drive if interested. I had
to strip out the Windows.Forms and System.Drawing stuff in there since we
don't need that for Mono. This provider is written in 100% C# and does not
use any MySQL client library because it communicates directly with the MySQL
server. This is the
MySQLNet mentioned in Venu's article. Here is the link to that GPL'ed
driver
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysqlnet/
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