On Oct 1, 2014, at 6:45 AM, Craig Treleaven <ctrelea...@macports.org> wrote:
> At 3:07 PM -0500 9/30/14, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> Currently, the latest stable version of MariaDB is 10.0.
>
> Really?
Yes, in that MariaDB 10.0 is the latest "release" version.
> Has MariaDB 10.0 really been sufficiently exercised in the
> OS X environment to become the default? Currently, not a single port
> that I've identified even offers mariadb-10.0 as a variant. Only 4
> ports in my list currently default to mariadb or mariadb55:
>
> Port Default Variant
> akonadi mariadb55
> amarok mariadb55
> py24-mysql mariadb55
> py25-mysql mariadb55
> py26-mysql mariadb55
> py27-mysql mariadb55
> qore-mysql-module mariadb
As soon as the variant naming is settled there will be mariadb-10.{0,1}
variants.
>> The question is what to name the variants. This has also been
>> brought up for discussion before. My most recent thread on the topic
>> from 2 weeks ago got no replies on the list; perhaps I was too wordy.
>>
>> My suggestion was that using dots in version numbers, but no
>> underscores, would be the cleanest and most informative, which would
>> make the complete list of proposed MySQL variant today: +mariadb5.5,
>> +mariadb10.0, +mariadb10.1, +mysql5.1, +mysql5.5, +mysql5.6, and
>> +percona5.6.
>
> Adopting this format means renaming every variant of every affected port.
>
> This may also break the upgrade path for existing installs, no? We
> really should keep legacy-named variants for a period of time along
> with the new standard which leads to an explosion of variants for
> some ports.
I think it is common to add something like this for a time (1 year):
if [variant_isset ${legacy-variant}] {
default_variants-append +${replacement-variant}
}
> For example, apr-util currently has mariadb, mysql5,
> mysql51, mysql55, mysql56, and percona variants related to db
> selection. We'd have to keep those 6 and add at least 6 more (maybe
> 8 if maridb10.0 and mariadb10.1 are supported).
Similar to recent discussions regarding removing old versions of perl and
python, we should consider removing/replacing older versions of mysql like
mysql4 and mysql5 and probably mysql51.
I believe it would be an improvement if we settled on these ports for now and
removed/replace all others:
mariadb-5.5 // MariaDB has long term support contract with Redhat for this 5.5
mariadb-10.0 // Newest stable release
mariadb-10.1 // Alpha release
mysql-5.5
mysql-5.6 // Generally Available (GA) Release
mysql-5.7 // Development Release
percona-5.5
percona-5.6
https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/+releases/
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/
http://www.percona.com/downloads/
Regards,
Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)
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