At 11:02 AM -0800 11/20/13, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
On Nov 19, 2013, at 4:58 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Nov 19, 2013, at 15:15, Joshua Root wrote:
On 2013-11-20 07:45 , Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
Popular choices:
mysql55
mysql56
mariadb
mariadb55 (mariadb replaced_by mariadb55)
My vote:
+1 mariadb55
mysql5 is 5.1, so really the only option is to replace it with mysql51.
Agreed because the whole reason why we have separate ports for
different versions of database servers is so that users can do it
at a time of their choosing, since doing so may necessitate
upgrading the database structure and/or changing the user's code
which uses the database.
Ok, just to be clear, replacing mysql5 with mysql51 will likely
require users to move there database files and config files.
I was going to stay out of this, but...
If mysql5 is going away and work has to be done to affect the change,
it makes no sense to me to _not_ go with a 5.5 or even 5.6 version
(be that MySQL or Maria).
Could we not find a way to have a 'mysql-current*'? There have got
to be a number of ports that currently depend on MySQL but have no
fundamental problem with newer versions. (My mythtv-core.xx ports
fall in that group.) The mysql-current port would just provide a way
of finding the version-specific binaries and libraries.
mysql-current might point to mysql55 right now and later be updated
to maria56, or whatever, while being as transparent as possible.
I think the current situation with mysql-compatible databases is a
support nightmare. For my ports, I want/need to give users
cookbook-style instructions for installing Myth. They have to do 6
steps to install, initialize, load and prep the database. If I were
to support mysql, maria and percona, those instructions would be
oh-so-subtly-different for each variant. Already, I get quite a few
questions where folks mucked up or missed a step. I don't want to
compound those issues several-fold!
Craig
*Yes, bad name. Could be 'mysql-stable', 'mysql-blessed',
'mysql-with-a-bullet', ... ;)
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