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Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 01:29:53 -0700
From: Paul Querna <chip@force-elite.com>
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Subject: Re: Towards a generic database connection API
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Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> * Paul Querna <chip@force-elite.com> wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
>>LGPL`ed, and I have never seen it used from an Apache Module.
> 
> something bad on lgpl ?

Yes, but this is not the place to dicuss philosophical differences on 
open source.

>>It looks quite heavy... the APR DBD api is just a loose wrapper 
>>around the low level calls, its a different target than unixODBC, 
>>which looks to be much much more.
> 
> As long as httpd brings its own expat and pcre, we dont need to 
> discuss about the heavyliness of unixodbc.

This is irrelevant to the proposed addition of DBD to the APR-Util API.

-Paul