Hi, Sorry I missed this thread!
Adam is (or is planning..) writing a DB backend that includes MySQL and > MariaDB > Not technically, I'm actually writing a backend to use the newer MySQL DBAPI library pymysql at https://github.com/adamchainz/django-pymysql-backend . For the first pass at least it won't do anything differently on MariaDB. I haven't worked on it since before DUTH unfortunately :( As for whether Django core should have a support policy for MariaDB, I think it definitely should do. I also think it's probably best if it's done with switches *inside* the MySQL backend, rather than as a separate backend. Now here's why: 1. MariaDB *is* MySQL on some Linux distros, e.g. Red Hat. When you install the mysql package, you get MariaDB. These are listed at https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/distributions-which-include-mariadb/ . Thus some users don't even know they're using MariaDB instead of MySQL. 2. MariaDB may have a smaller user base at current, but it's growing pretty quickly compared to MySQL (though I guess it's hard to grow when you're so popular). See http://db-engines.com/en/ranking_trend/system/MariaDB versus http://db-engines.com/en/ranking_trend/system/MySQL . 3. The policy of creating one tool that works on both MySQL + MariaDB, with detection for which it is, is pretty much the standard practice in the community, e.g. this line in the popular mydumper utility: https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~max-bubenick/mydumper/0.9/view/head:/mydumper.c#L334 4. I don't expect there too be too many MariaDB specific checks in Django, since MariaDB still keeps MySQL compatibility. The TEXT / BLOB column defaults ( https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/27676 ) are one example of a relatively small change. On Tuesday, November 15, 2016 at 7:41:17 AM UTC, Josh Smeaton wrote: > > I believe Adam is (or is planning..) writing a DB backend that includes > MySQL and MariaDB. Adam, did I remember correctly? If so, are you going to > suggest adding this new backend to core as a replacement? Mads, perhaps you > can help with this effort? > > Regards, > > On Tuesday, 15 November 2016 08:44:57 UTC+11, Mads Jensen wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I got interest in contributing to Django. I started working on a bigger >> ticket than the smaller contributions I've previously made. >> >> Adam Chainz pointed out that MariaDB will include support for window >> expressions (#26608) from 10.2. I asked on #django-dev what the official >> policy for MariaDB is, and was told it's ad-hoc. Also, the test >> environment does include MariaDB which to me would make sense to add. I >> think the implemented features for MySQL is also available for MariaDB. >> >> I know the existence of django-mysql. >> -- >> Med venlig hilsen / Kind regards, >> Mads Jensen >> >> Saajan Fernandes: I think we forget things if there is nobody to >> tell them. >> -- The Lunchbox (2013) >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/3451d7ea-457d-48b8-8575-87caed2d2051%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
