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[Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

and why?

it is and where it isn't unintentional report it and help to get it 
fixed, that said from a admin which dozens of MariaDB servers where the 
datadir was originally created on Windows under MySQL 3.x, got moved in 
prduction for some years to MacOS, later to Linux and now is running 
MariaDB 10.1 just fine with the same datadirs and the help of 
"mysql_upgrade" over the years


Am 05.04.2017 um 16:50 schrieb MARK CALLAGHAN:
> Maybe someone should edit the too strong claims on 
> https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-vs-mysql-compatibility/
>
> In bold at the top of the page...
>
>
>     MariaDB is a binary drop in replacement for MySQL
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 9:58 PM, Sergei Golubchik <serg@xxxxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:serg@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     Hi, Mark!
>
>     On Apr 04, Mark Callaghan wrote:
>     > With upstream (5.6 and 5.7) MySQL when I use cmake
>     > -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$X, then after I install the build,
>     mysqld searches
>     > in $X/etc for my.cnf. That is not true for MariaDB Server 10.2.
>     Why can't
>     > this match upstream?
>
>
>     It certainly can. It just doesn't. Because we merge from 5.6 into
>     MariaDB feature by feature, and nobody has requested this particular
>     feature so far. At least I couldn't find it in Jira.
>
>     Regards,
>     Sergei
>     Chief Architect MariaDB
>     and security@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:security@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Mark Callaghan
> mdcallag@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:mdcallag@xxxxxxxxx>