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Re: [PATCH 3/3] gnu: Add MariaDB.
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH 3/3] gnu: Add MariaDB. |
Date: |
Fri, 17 Apr 2015 15:37:25 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
address@hidden (Taylan Ulrich "Bayırlı/Kammer") skribis:
> David Thompson <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> 宋文武 <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> * gnu/packages/database.scm (mariadb): New variable.
>>
>> MariaDB is a replacement for MySQL. Last I read you can just replace
>> MySQL with MariaDB and everything just works. So, should we keep our
>> mysql package?
>
> According to Wikipedia:
>
> After the 5.5 version, MariaDB developers decided to start a branch
> numbered 10, as an attempt to make it clear that MariaDB 10.0 will
> not import all features from MySQL 5.6; however, they might be
> imported in future versions.
>
> So it might be best to keep it for users desiring MySQL 5.6+ features
> that won't be present in MariaDB until possibly later.
I had overlooked that. It makes sense to keep both then (and it
shouldn’t cost much anyway.)
Ludo’.