<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">
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</div>hard to say which tools users have running which are<br>
built against MySQL 5.5 and not part of fedora and<br>
if they break, and yes for users this is a topic beause<br>
the distribution / OS for the user is a platform for<br>
his work and tools and not the one and only<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>Ah but the context of the feature proposal and of this change is current MySql 5.5 in F18 to MariaDB in F19 ...</div><div style><br>
</div><div style>You keep bringing up the bump needed in 5.5.10 but that's out of context for this - anyone running against less than 5.5.10 would not be relevant to this discussion (as they'd have a similar issue updating to any MySql release that is 5.5.10 or higher) and that would not be a F18 to F19 upgrade...</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>For users who have tools that work with current the current MySql 5.5 release there is full compatibility whether you mean by API, ABI, server or client libraries or files... it is only those users that are in context for this discussion.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>If you have a specific example of this not being true then I'm sure the MariaDB guys would love to see the bug report to fix that - otherwise this is just a matter of discussion outside of the scope of the change and based solely in the hypothetical.</div>
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