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RE: cygwinb19 and mysql-win32


>win32 build should run fine without cygwin. i suspect they've only 
>included the library for some weird sense of completeness but it's 
>totally non-essential. suppose someone did compile a cygwin mysql 
>client, but they should have cygwin as well, so it doesn't 
>make sense to 
>have cygwinb19.dll distributed with mysql win32 binary at all.

They use it explicitly for their mysqlc. mysql and mysqlc are the comman
line tools for MySQL, while mysql offers just limited text line editing
capabilities, mysqlc offers readline editing. And - as Robert already
mensioned - they state this explicitly in the manual (Ch. 4) with the demand
to copy this file to the Windows system directory.

So they violate the license and even more they create a number of Cygwin
users breaking their environment!

Greetings,
Jorg

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