From: Michael Widenius Date: March 21 1999 5:14pm Subject: iodbc & myodbc & mysql List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/myodbc/76 Message-Id: <14069.10404.516683.972566@monty.pp.sci.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi! >>>>> "Lars" == Lars Doelle writes: Lars> Hi, Lars> as you might know, the iodbc dm is now maintained for quite a while. Lars> So it does not make sense to distribute a private version of iodbc anymore. Sounds good! Lars> Though myodbc does run with the "officical" version, i found that myodbc Lars> has a general flaw, it does not make use of the driver configuration. Lars> So, SQLConnect is plain broken on unix. Lars> The issue is, that no SQLGetPrivateProfileString is provided by neither Lars> myodbc's special iodbc edition nor by the current version of the iodbc. Lars> I tried to contact Giovanni earlier to hash the issue out, but it failed, so Lars> perhaps this list is a better address. Lars> Another flaw i found with myodbc is that it requires the mysql sources Lars> to be installed (for some headers). Because i feel otherwise comfortable Lars> with the binary distribution i use and it also includes all the headers that Lars> mysql installs regularly, i wonder if this could not be fixed also. I got a mail about this a couple of days ago and this should be fixed in the next MySQL version (3.22.21). Lars> Regards, Lars Regards, Monty