Is there any decision concerning this problem?
The mysql, odbc, and pgsql build options have been completely removed in ROOT 6.38.
Do you plan to restore them in the future?
If not, do you plan to provide any “replacements”?
These options are still present (“deprecated”) in ROOT 6.36, but you do not provide (your) binary distributions with them switched “on”.
According to your “Release and Support Schedule”, ROOT 6.36 will be maintained for the next 5 years or so (until 2030).
Could you then please start building your “official” ROOT 6.36 binary distributions so that these features are “supported” (“compiled in”) in them by default?
I suppose this would really help people from non-LHC experiments (those who currently need them as well).