I love the IDEA of Fedora, but I don't use it. Fedora is Red Hat's experimental, community-based product. It's bleeding edge. That means stuff is often broken and changes in direction are not impossible.
This is not what I need, especially for a production server. On Friday, March 8, 2013 6:57:18 PM UTC-5, LightDot wrote: > > I don't know in terms of user numbers but mysql is getting replaced with > mariadb in Fedora, which will have some impact. > > Current plan for Fedora 19 is this: > - mariadb package will provide "mysql" > - existing mysql package will be renamed to MySQL > - mariadb and MySQL pacakges conflict, they can't be installed at the same > time. > > In others words, mariadb will act as a drop-in replacement for mysql. All > programs built against mysql libs will be rebuilt against the new "mysql" > libs, thus against mariadb. Everybody who installs "mysql" will in fact > install mariadb. > > There has been some debate about this mysql replacement and I'm expecting > further discussions, especially when Fedora 19 alpha and beta get released > and more users become aware of the change. I don't see any real changes for > the users though, at least not in the near future. > > Regards, > Ales > > On Friday, March 8, 2013 9:39:38 PM UTC+1, Richard wrote: >> >> Thanks Cliff I wasn't about that issue, it's good to know that. >> >> I would be really curious to know if the MySQL user base had splitted >> since the MariaDB fork and what the proportion that stays with MySQL and >> now with MariaDB... >> >> Richard >> >> >> On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Cliff Kachinske <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> @Richard >>> >>> Yeah, I know. But what about documentation? >>> >>> The MySQL code itself is free open source, but Oracle owns the copyright >>> on the MySQL documentation. >>> >>> So as the MariaDB fork adds features, the MySQL documentation becomes >>> more and more inaccurate. At some point there will have to be a full >>> rewrite of the MariaDB docs. Just seems too messy. >>> >>> >>> On Friday, March 8, 2013 8:44:52 AM UTC-5, Richard wrote: >>> >>>> @Cliff MariaDB!! >>>> >>>> :) >>>> >>>> Richard >>>> >>>> >>>> On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 7:36 AM, Cliff Kachinske <[email protected]>wrote: >>>> >>>>> It's not just the legal aspect. >>>>> >>>>> After seeing how poorly Oracle supported OpenOffice, I would be >>>>> concerned about their future support for MySQL as well. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Friday, March 8, 2013 4:43:06 AM UTC-5, Niphlod wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> This is going nuts. He was fine until now with SQLite, either one of >>>>>> mysql or postgres will do fine, with a total preference on postgres if >>>>>> he >>>>>> doesn't want to employ a legal office to know if he can use mysql or not. >>>>>> >>>>>> PS: the day I'm going to choose mysql over postgres for the combined >>>>>> requirement of having: >>>>>> - a nice syntax to expose an autoincrementing field >>>>>> - is able to accomodate 8M rows with 3 bytes instead of 4 (I'll never >>>>>> consider a tiny or a smallint as an autoincrement-eligible field) >>>>>> it's the day I'll stop working on databases. >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>> >>>>> --- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>> Groups "web2py-users" group. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>>> an email to web2py+un...@**googlegroups.com. >>>>> >>>>> For more options, visit >>>>> https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out> >>>>> . >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>> >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "web2py-users" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> >>> >> >> -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
