Hi!
"Peter" == Peter Zaitsev <pz@percona.com> writes:
Peter> Henrik, Peter> 5.2.47 is a lot more clear for me though it relays on the fact MySQL chose Peter> not to release 5.2 themselves Yes. Peter> What are you going to do with 5.5 as it comes out ? Create 5.6 and hope Peter> MySQL will never release such a version ? It depends on how fast MySQL 5.6 comes out. As this is 2+ years in the future, we don't have to concern ourselves with that now. We can always use something like MariaDB 5.5b.1, 5.5c.1. Peter> I think it is confusing. We don't have much choice just now than wait and see and do the best of it. Peter> I also think this is moving away from what things really are MariaDB 5.2.0 Peter> is based on 5.1.44 (whatever) and it just includes more changes than Peter> MariaDB 5.1.44 That has been true for every MySQL release ever now and will be in the future. You can also argue that MariaDB 5.1 is based on MySQL 5.0 + changes and because of that we should base the version numbers on 5.0 version numbers. What is important is that each different main release (5.1, 5.2 etc) have their own development phase and are thus independent releases. We will also keep each main version up to date for a long time (which is what distributions require nowadays). Peter> There is also MariaDB 5.3 which also may be based on the Peter> same base MySQL version though have even more changes. The right way to look at it is to say that MariaDB 5.3 is based on MariaDB 5.2. MariaDB 5.3 has also things from MySQL 5.1, 5.5 and 6.0 and things that is not in any MySQL version. Regards, Monty