Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

[Arthur G]

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 at 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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