[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 107579] Native mysql connector extension fails to be loaded

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107579

--- Comment #9 from Lionel Elie Mamane <lionel at mamane.lu> ---
(In reply to Julien Nabet from comment #4)
> (...) I must recognize I don't know:
> - if we want to migrate towards MariaDB or keep both (MariaDB and Mysql)

We ship one connector (that is an SDBC driver) that can connect to both.

> - if MariaDB is still compatible with Mysql or, since this one is a fork, it
> begins to differ too much

Supposed to be compatible.

Technically the only change that happened is that we changed from MySQL's
libmysqlclient C library (GPL licensed + exceptions, also called C connector)
to MariaDB's fork of it (LGPL licensed). We still use on top of that MySQL's
libmysqlcppconn (C++ Connector) which is GPL licensed. (The LibreOffice code
uses only libmysqlcppconn but that one uses libmysqlclient underneath.)

There was a desire at some point to remove libmysqlcppconn from the stack, but
the workforce to implement that never materialised.

> - if the connector must still be named mysqlconnector whereas we use MariaDB

<shrug>

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