Matt Ingenthron wrote: > > However, having looked into this before (when deciding whether or not to > file an RFE :) ), it doesn't seem to be common in the upstream project > to ever package a "client" separate from the server. There are > "connectors" for things which don't depend upon the C libraries > associated with the server (namely Java, a native PHP version, .Net). > Other than that, all upstream distributions include the whole server.
Upstream is source tarballs, so that's not a apples to apples comparison. The distros do the packaging. > How do other distributions which bundle community server handle this? > I've not looked into this. Maybe someone on one of these lists knows. Debian has % apt-cache show php5-mysql [...] Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6), libmysqlclient15off (>= 5.0.27-1), phpapi-20060613+lfs, php5-common (= 5.2.0-8+etch10) [...] % apt-cache show libmysqlclient15off [...] Description: mysql database client library so they seem to have solved it. -- Jyri J. Virkki - jyri.virkki at sun.com - Sun Microsystems
