At 7:35 PM +0300 12/7/07, Konstantin Osipov wrote:
>* Sergei Golubchik <serg@stripped> [07/12/07 19:20]:
>> It basically is a part of the public library API - it's the only way for
>> a client to support /etc/my.cnf configuration, which is supposed to be
>> common to all clients.
>
>I think we mean different things under words "client library'.
>
>Client library is a Connector/C. Not "a library to use if you
>build a MySQL command line client".
Whatever. The important thing here is that users *cannot* write client
programs in C without using load_defaults(), if they want to include
option file support the same way that our own client programs do.
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