Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
At the moment we use old and legacy version of mysql connector.
The include directory contains commits for 2011 by ccw.
Describe the solution you'd like
We know not much about licensing of Oracle MySQL, and I suggest to moving forward MariaDB
MariaDB has open source and free license (GPL and LGPL for libraries).
The MariaDB tries to make a closer compatibility with Oracle MySQL, so I think refactoring of old connector must be safe.
All new OS have in repos only MariaDB version of MySQL, current library is still compatible, but it's better to have newer.
Additional context
https://github.com/mariadb-corporation/mariadb-connector-c
https://downloads.mariadb.com/Connectors/c/connector-c-3.1.12/