Hi Claude Afraid I haven't made any progress, I don't get to contribute to Django at work these days which has slowed me down :(
So the sketchy plan I've had in my mind for some time is: 1) Get testing with all supported MariaDB versions (currently 5.5, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2) into Django CI, and fix any problems 2) Document that MariaDB is supported 3) *Do not* add a new database backend for MariaDB. Instead have the MySQL backend determine which it's talking to and act appropriately. I suspect a large percentage of MariaDB users aren't even aware they're using as they just did yum install mysql or w/e. Also the differences are generally minor, and the whole MySQL ecosystem is developing tools that work against both. 4) Add mysql_flavor (or something like that) to the MySQL database backend, and then update all uses of mysql_version to be like if mysql_flavor == 'oracle' and mysql_version >= (5, 6) or mysql_flavor == 'mariadb' and mysql_version >= (10, 1) - as appropriate for the feature in question. 5) Look at supporting pymysql instead of MySQLdb - it's better maintained, pure python so not compiled against libmysqlclient, and better tested with MariaDB. It should be fairly easy to drop in, but when I gave it a go >1 year ago it threw some non-simple errors. Of course they can't really be done in order as they all interdepend, except #5 can probably be done separately. On 30 September 2017 at 16:42, Claude Paroz <cla...@2xlibre.net> wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to push a bit for that functionality in Django 2.1. Adam, any > progress? > > In https://github.com/django/django/pull/7778, you talked about a better > plan. Show us your plan, please :-) > > Claude > > -- > 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/2c525ee9-ed0c-4b4b-9dd2- > f4750496b2c1%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/2c525ee9-ed0c-4b4b-9dd2-f4750496b2c1%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Adam -- 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/CAMyDDM2O-MDLCOVM%3DJ53qqDCEqnEBZQL%2BHk9U-VBXBf4E5EFwA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
