[php-maint] Bug#576412: php5: Please add MySQL native driver "mysqlnd" support for PHP 5.3.x

Alexander Schories alexander at schories.com
Sun Apr 4 10:58:14 UTC 2010


Package: php5
Version: 5.3.2-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: upstream sid experimental patch



Dear valued maintainers,


please compile future versions of PHP5 (5.3.x+) with MySQLnd support,
as it:

- doesn't break current PHP5 extensions, such as php5-mysql(i) or
PDO_MYSQL at all!

- comes with a superior license: PHP license, no need for FLOSS
Exception any more

- it's native: uses PHP memory management, supports PHP memory limit

- it's oh so native: keeps every row only once in memory, with
libmysql you have it twice in memory 

- comes with new features: keeps a long list of performance related
statistics for bottle-neck analysis

- comes with even more new features: persistent connections for
ext/mysqli

- offers considerable performance improvements compared to
php5-mysql(i), for example when fetching buffered result sets,
client-side result set cache (pre-alpha design study in Bazaar)

- it's easier to compile: no more linking against libmysql

- it's yet easier to compile: no need to have libmysql on the PHP
build host


Details can be found at:

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/php-mysqlnd/

http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/PHP_MYSQLND#Advantages_of_mysqlnd


Thank you so much for the amazing packages and support you donate to
the whole debian community!


Kind Regards

Alexander Schories
Tuebingen, Germany



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-xs5.5.0.17 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=DE_de.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=DE_de.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages php5 depends on:
ii  libapache2-mod-php5           5.3.2-1    server-side, HTML-embedded scripti
ii  php5-cgi                      5.3.2-1    server-side, HTML-embedded scripti
ii  php5-common                   5.3.2-1    Common files for packages built fr

php5 recommends no packages.

php5 suggests no packages.

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