while we start to wind up development of connector/odbc 5.1, i will also be taking on responsibility for libmysql, the c library that defines the client interface to mysql, and the mysql command-line utilities. there are about 120 active bugs in those areas right now, so the first task will be getting that down to a more manageable number.

after that, the field will open up for new development. i know that an asynchronous interface to libmysql is on some people’s wishlist, and there are other areas where i think that libmysql could be cleaned up in general.

but the idea that i think is the most exciting is to build a scripting …

I built a simple ODBC program that attempts to connect to a data source and tells you whether the connection succeeded or not.

It works. Yay. I also moved the example config directory to the example directory, since that's what they are.

$ dltest /opt/sdb/programs/lib/libsqlod.so SQLAllocHandle
[dltest] ERROR dlopen: /opt/sdb/programs/lib/libsqlod.so: undefined symbol: _ZTVN10__cxxabiv120__si_class_type_infoE

$ LD_PRELOAD=libstdc++.so.5 dltest /opt/sdb/programs/lib/libsqlod.so SQLAllocHandle

I put this example odbcinst.ini file in /etc, and this example odbc.ini file in my home directory as $HOME/.odbc.ini, and then ran the following:

$ LD_PRELOAD=libstdc++.so.5 isql MailDB dba dba

and voìla! Now to get down to the important bits...