[Oneiric-Topic] Package Updates

[Douglas Stanley]

On Mar 30, 2011 7:20 PM, "Clint Byrum" <clint at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:16:14AM -0400, Ralph Janke wrote:
> >  Isn't it time to use mariadb instead of mysql?
> >
>
> Could you provide some rationalization of MariaDB vs. the main MySQL
> releases?
>
> There are a bunch of forks we could consider with varying degrees of
> compatibility with MYSQL.
>
> Percona (working on packaging)
> MariaDB (available from their own repos)
> Drizzle (in universe)
>
> Compatible or not, none of these are really MySQL.
>
> I'd really like to have a good reason before moving to any of these as
> our preferred MySQL service. I don't think MySQL is like Hudson.. Oracle
> seems to be taking good care of it and (for the time being) nothing has
> changed in their approach to community contribution (which has never
> been fantastic anyway).
>
>
I thought they recently pulled innodb support from the latest "community"
edition of MySQL.  So unless the consensus is to just stick with 5.5
forever, then I guess there's no reason to choose a fork now.  However, if
we don't want to stay with an old version forever,  a choice will have to be
made at some point.

But then again, why not keep MySQL in main AND choose a newer fork to also
include? Maybe some people won't care about innodb, and just keep using
MySQL. Or maybe I'm completely wrong and innodb hasn't been pulled out, in
which case, just ignore the crazy person in the corner babbling...

Doug

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