Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

[Honza Horak]

On 02/03/2013 06:24 PM, Pavel Alexeev wrote:
> 01.02.2013 00:42, James Hogarth wrote:
>> I'd still say yes since the context of this discussion is mysql 5.5 to
>> mariadb 5.5 and nothing to do with mysql 5.6 and the time for mariadb
>> 10/11 to become fully compatible to what's brought to the table in
>> that which was the relevant discussion in those blog posts...
>>
>> And if someone is using upstream themselves they are responsible to
>> manage that ... and assuming the versioned obsoletes is used as
>> discussed yesterday then there would be no accidental overwrite and
>> compatibility if mysql-5.6 is on the system and the admin updated
>> without thinking...
> Is it really hard maintain both? May be it have worth also package and
> support Percona with XtraDB?

The question of maintaining both will be probably re-evaluate in the 
future again, there may be some new opinions for any way.

Speaking about XtraDB -- MariaDB includes this engine so feel free to 
test it.

Honza