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Client SDK Release For Linux Repositories

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For most other major databases you can install a database driver from the standard package management repository. "apt-get install mysql-client" "yum install postgres-dev", etc. It easily allows systems to be set up to communicate and work with the databases.

With Informix you have to log into the portal, find the correct CSDK version, download it, transfer it to the server, and go through the install. This adds a lot of work for administrators and makes it much harder for non-Informix people to get up and running with an application that works against Informix.

I would like to see a csdk release that just had openssl support, so no gskit requirement, that could be distributed through normal software channels making it easier to install and manage.
This would also allow open source drivers to also be added to repositories rather than having to do manual builds on each system they are used on.

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