It would nice for MariaDB to obsolete MySQL and have an emulation
switch that allows it to masquerade as a MySQL installation as well as
operate in native mode. This will provide backwards compatability for
systems that use products that want to see a MySQL installation. This
will also provide a fresh canvass for new development that only wants
to talk/depend directly with native MariaDB. This will also provide
compatability for systems that want to do both.
Perhaps this MySQL emulation component for MariaDB can be delivered as
a separate RPM that "provides" mysql. This will make the original
MariaDB RPM cleaner.
Arthur.
On 24 January 2013 13:05, Adam Williamson <awilliam(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Wed, 2013-01-23 at 17:49 -0800, Andrew Rist wrote:
> but the database choice for Fedora should only focus on the merits and
> the quality of the MySQL code
You may have read the mission statement, but you appear to have entirely
missed the four foundations:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Foundations
of which 'Freedom' and 'Friends' are notably the first. The concerns
I've seen raised around MySQL are not related to the 'merits and the
quality of the...code' but to the freedom of the development community,
a topic that was noticeably absent from your mail.
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