[Lazarus] Lazarus & MySQL 5.1

[Marco van de Voort]

On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 11:52:40AM +0000, Henry Vermaak wrote:
> >> should link to mysqlclient.so (using the symlink, the unix way).
> >
> > I agree completely, and there is already a way to check the client
> > library version in the mysql api.
> 
> But what if they're dynamically loaded?  Most users won't have the
> libname.so symlink installed.

IMHO that should be dealt with by a application specific configuration
system, and left to the programmer.

It is not something that IMHO the libs should try to decide for everybody.