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[Henrik Ingo <henrik.ingo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Peter...

On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Peter Laursen<peter_laursen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have a concern that I will ask you all to consider while there is
> time.  I think I understand that after MariaDB 5.1 a 5.2 release is
> planned.  I think it should not be versioned like that.  Problem is that
> there is a MySQL 5.2 tree too (it is basically an early 6.0) and it is
> still available for download from FTP-mirrors like
> ftp://mirrors.dotsrc.org/mysql/Downloads/ .

And at Webyog you strive to actually support that version?

> For generic and GUI clients (ie. not designed for specific server
> versions and where SQL is generated and not written by user) it is
> important that the version string can be used to identify what SQL
> statements are supported by server. The first thing such clients (like
> our own SQLyog) does after connection is to SELECT VERSION() .. and only
> after that we know if there is support for EVENTS, if IF EXISTS is
> supported for DROP TRIGGER sysntax and so on.  If there are two
> different 5.2 trees (MariaDB based on MySQL 5.1 and MySQL 5.2) it gets
> more difficult to handle.
> .
> I asked Monty about this at one of his sessions at the latest UC and he
> told like 'we are good citizens - except for the comment field MariaDB
> will be versioned like the MySQL code it is based upon'. What I also
> think is the best solution. The *version* should not be the same for
> different builds with even the slightest difference in what SQL server
> understands. On the opposite version should be the same as long as SQL-
> interface (even with possible Engine-specific extensions) is the same no
> matter how much they differ internally.
>
> Maybe in the long run diversification is inevitable.  But in that case
> it should be planned well!

>From your point of view, how should we identify a release that

- Uses MySQL 5.1 as baseline
- Note: MariaDB 5.1 also uses MySQL 5.1 as baseline
- Has more features than MariaDB 5.1

?

henrik

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