[Bug 46259] rewrite mysql connector to use mariadb client library

[Lionel Elie Mamane]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 10:07:27AM -0500, elderdanlewis wrote:

>    Why is this bug report sent out? Why hasn't it been closed?
> LibreOffice 3.6.x are rather old compared with 5.1.x. As I
> understand it, the MySQL native connector works with MySQL and
> Mariadb. 

That's not what this bug report is about. That bug report is about
stopping to use GPLed Connector/C++ and using only the C API, or some
other (more liberally licensed) C++ APIs, such as
https://kb.askmonty.org/en/c-client-library-mariadb/ or
http://tangentsoft.net/mysql++/

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Lionel