On Sep 30, 2014, at 8:37 AM, Craig Treleaven <ctrelea...@macports.org> wrote:
> By way of background, my MythTV ports depend on p5.16-dbd-mysql, py27-mysql
> and php-5-mysql. Previously, all of these defaulted to the now-obsolete
> mysql5 variant. Now, py-mysql defaults to mariadb55. p516-dbd-mysql offers
> a "mariadb" variant; not "mariadb55". php5-mysql defaults to mysqlind
> ("MySQL native driver") and offers a "mariadb" variant; again not
> "mariadb55". p5.16-dbd-mysql still defaults to mysql5.
>
> The subtle variance in naming the variants creates confusion. The range of
> defaults can lead to bloat and confusion.
>
> Initially, I found there was a ticket related to py-mysql database variants
> [1] and I filed additional tickets for php5-mysql [2] and p5-dbd-mysql [3].
> Since then, I thought to search for other ports that offer variants related
> to MySQL ('port echo variant:mysql*')--a total of 89 ports, of which about 20
> are subports.
>
> [1] https://trac.macports.org/ticket/39068
> [2] https://trac.macports.org/ticket/44481
> [3] https://trac.macports.org/ticket/44484
>
> The tickets have been open for 6 weeks or more with no movement. I've started
> to do some analysis on this (with another thread asking for help) to see if
> we can standardize on a list of MySQL-related variant names and maybe even
> agree on a common default.
>
> That's where the dictator comes in. At the moment, I would say the obvious
> choices for a default MySQL variant would be mysql55, mariadb55 or, maybe,
> mysql56. AFAICT there is no clear-cut, compelling reason to choose one over
> the others (technical, legal, religious, whatever).
Momentum appears to be on the side of MariaDB
MariaDB 10.0 is the current release branch and is tracked by the mariadb-10.0
port.
Regards,
Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)
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