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[Peter Laursen <peter_laursen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

To make it clear: it is not acceptable/not a usable solution for us if it
is a requirement that a MariaDB server is installed on user's system. The
client (in case SQLyog - but it could be any client) should work for
connection to remote servers with no server at all installed on client
machine.


-- Peter

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 8:29 PM, Peter Laursen <peter_laursen@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> OK .. we will check this again.
>
> But in principle we want (always) not to have any external dependencies in
> our prorams/apllications at at all. We link statically everything to the
> extend possible. People should download and install SQlyog with a single
> click and it will just work. PERIOD! :-) That is what Windows users expect
> from an installer. How do we accomplish this with the MariaDB API? Compile
> it as a .lib/.dll and bundle it with our installer and let the installer
> copy it into the installation directory? Or should what you describe here
> happen at compile-time (linking statically)? Also please remember that
> SQLyog is a Windows program and our compiler is Visual Studio (2010
> version, currently).
>
> Maybe you can provide *Windowssand Visual Studio pecific* guidelines?.
>
> Also (BTW) 1- 1½ years ago I asked similar questions and the only reply I
> had was (very abstractly) that MariaDB's mplementation was far superior to
> Oracle's. I was actually *despearately* asking for help at that time. The
> reply ("we are the best")  was very little helpful and we have already lost
> significant business due to this.
>
> Anyway, I  wili ask our developer team to recover as much information as
> possible due to this.
>
> -- Peter
>
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 7:49 PM, Sergei Golubchik <serg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi, Peter!
>>
>> On Oct 13, Peter Laursen wrote:
>> > Well .. where will I find it documented how to use it with Oracle-MySQL
>> > configured for their LDAP authenticaton setup? The same code that worked
>> > with oracles API does not work with the MariaDB API.
>>
>> There's only one difference that comes to my mind.
>>
>> Oracle-MySQL cleartext plugin is integral part of the client library,
>> it's statically compiled into it. In MariaDB it's a separate plugin -
>> which is loaded automatically on demand, but you still need to make sure
>> you set the plugin-dir path correctly.
>>
>> There's nothing else I can think of, our test suite verifies that
>> cleartext plugin exists and that it actually works, so I don't think
>> we've broken it somehow.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Sergei
>>
>>
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