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[MARK CALLAGHAN <mdcallag@xxxxxxxxx>]

Why do you need to shout about this?

On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 10:04 AM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>
>
> Am 05.04.2017 um 18:57 schrieb MARK CALLAGHAN:
>
>> It is different from upstream MySQL in many ways as that page explains.
>>
>
> bla - if it woul dbe just a recompile from the mysql sources it would not
> be a fork - in 99.9% of all cases IT IS a drop-in-replacement - if you have
> REAL issues name them - period
>
> On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 8:03 AM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> <mailto:h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>>     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/
>>>     <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>
>>>
>>
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