mysql and odbc

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Dec 20, 2013, at 13:55, David Mandelberg wrote:

> I'm trying to port some software to Mac, and it uses mysql and odbc. The mysql-connector-odbc port depends on mysql5, but I also had an issue with mysql5 for which I was told to use another mysql package: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/41863
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> Is there another port for the MySQL ODBC connector that uses a different version of MySQL?

No but there should be. All ports that currently use mysql5, including mysql-connector-odbc, need to be updated to give the user the choice of which of the 5 new mysql ports they want to use. Since the connector is something other software is expected to use (and is not itself the end user product) that choice should probably be implemented as subports, not variants.

> Or do I have to install multiple versions of mysql to get both select support and an ODBC connector? Alternatively, I could recommend that my users create symlinks manually, but I feel like that could cause trouble if they later want to use a different version of MySQL and forgot about the manually-created symlinks.