[fpc-pascal] FreePascal and MySQL 8.0

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sun, 19 Sep 2021, Florian Klämpfl via fpc-pascal wrote:

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>> Am 19.09.2021 um 10:16 schrieb Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org>:
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>> On Sat, 18 Sep 2021, Florian Klämpfl via fpc-pascal wrote:
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>>> Am 18.09.21 um 17:34 schrieb Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal:
>>>> On Sat, 18 Sep 2021, Terry A. Haimann via fpc-pascal wrote:
>>>>> I just upgraded to a new laptop and see that MariaDB is using MySQL 8.0
>>>>> . I also see there is no connector in my Free Pascal install for MySQL
>>>>> 8.0.  I do see that there is an open ticket to create a connector.  Is
>>>>> there an Alpha or Beta version of the connector available that I can
>>>>> try?
>>>> Trunk contains the mysql 8.0 connector.
>>>> You should be able to simply copy the files and use the units with 3.2.x
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>>> Shall we merge it to fixes?
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>> Yes, definitely.
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> Hmm, it is inter winded with fcl-db changes should merge them as well?

There should be a change in mysql (the library headers) and a change in
fcl-db (the new connector class) ?

Michael.