Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL MariaDB - is it time?

2012-03-04 Thread Jorge Martínez López
2012/3/2 Matthew Finkel matthew.fin...@gmail.com: It's definitely an interesting dilemma, but one that was expected to happen eventually. Lucky Gentoo doesn't have to worry about release cycles. MariaDB is in portage so, in theory, it shouldn't be too difficult for any of us to make the

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL MariaDB - is it time?

2012-03-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Tanstaafl writes: Anyone here ever done the switch want to share their experience? I use MySQL for an ld phpBB board and for Amarok, and do not now much about it. I never explicitely installed MySQL, I only have the mysql USE flag set for things like python or PHP. Somehow, dev-db/mysql was

[gentoo-user] MySQL MariaDB - is it time?

2012-03-01 Thread Tanstaafl
Hi all, I just came across this thread today on the MariaDB discuss list about the poor stewardship of Oracle with respect to MySQL (and it references Oracle's track record of poor handling of the FLOSS projects it inherited when it bought Sun):

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL MariaDB - is it time?

2012-03-01 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Hi all, I just came across this thread today on the MariaDB discuss list about the poor stewardship of Oracle with respect to MySQL (and it references Oracle's track record of poor handling of the FLOSS projects it

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL MariaDB - is it time?

2012-03-01 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mar 2, 2012 3:50 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Hi all, I just came across this thread today on the MariaDB discuss list about the poor stewardship of Oracle with respect to MySQL (and it references Oracle's track record of poor handling of the FLOSS projects it inherited