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Now, here's how the code to instance the DB object could have been written:

$db->sql_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpasswd, $dbname, $dbport, (isset($db_persistency)?$db_persistency:false),(isset($db_newlink)?$db_newlink:false));


Now it works exactly like now, setting persistency to false and new ...

I'm afraid you're missing the point here.

The point is: To fix this, I have to change phpbb3 files.

What happens when the user upgrades their installation to RC8 then?
The fix will be gone and have to be implemented again.

A small change in phpbb3 code, to make phpbb3 accept config setting for ...

That's true, but most users of products that integrate with phpbb isn't advanced users.
I'm helping out with the http://www.phpraider.com project. We have made an authentication module that uses phpbb3 for authentication.

In cases like that it's alot easier to tell users to just change this setting ...

Any reason why you changed the initiation of the db object to:

$db->sql_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpasswd, $dbname, $dbport, false, false);

from:

$db->sql_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpasswd, $dbname, $dbport, true, true);
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Setting the newlink to false, kind of ruins integration ...