On 30 January 2013 04:24, James Hogarth <james.hogarth@gmail.com> wrote:

> Second, if mariadb differs more in the future and stops to be "drop-in" replacement, then we'll need an alternative for applications, where mariadb won't be suitable enough. Nevertheless, this is not a current issue right now.
>

Indeed this is a straw man effectively.


Is it?

http://blog.mariadb.org/explanation-on-mariadb-10-0/ and http://blog.mariadb.org/mariadb-10-0-and-mysql-5-6/ seem to suggest that MariaDB will no longer be following Mysql as religiously as the feature suggests