Mnyb;602726 Wrote: 
> 
> None of this is really logitechs problem , but it manifest when trying
> to run the server and blame will fall acordingly. And it migth not be a
> positive consumer experience to fall on you face when trying to set up
> the thing :)

And then in the future users see a setting to switch to MySQL and think
'hey I heard that - this is the famous open source DB, let's use this'
and fail because:
- Logitechs QA is not as dedicated to MySQL compared to SQLLite
- They still have they virus scanners on causing trouble (even me is
getting a support request once a month, which in the end boils down to
virus scanner issues).

So again unhappy customers for no reason.

Keeping MySQL only has drawbacks and very rare pros:

(+) you keep a minority happy who insist on using MySQL. 
(-) you have twice the QA+Development costs (having a big automated
testsuite does not prevent this. In the end you need to do the
integration test, as the databases DO differ: transaction handling,
deadlock escalation, internal query optimization, index usage).
And if you consider MySQL as the first choice for huge music collection
you just have to care and can't just hope that queries that work well on
SQLite will do so on MySQL.
(-) third party devs have twice the effort: even if erland decides to
support only SQLite. Who will be the first to demand MySQL-support from
him ?
(-) you get all kind of trouble with virus-scanners again


My vote: just drop MySQL and keep away from all the troubles you will
have with supporting two databases.

By the way: did the server code had some closed source as well? If
that's the case using MySQL (as you link the GPL driver) would be a GPL
license violation anyway.


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