[Maria-developers] any plans to bump soname for libmysqlclient.so?
Hi, mysql 5.7 bumped soname of the libmysqlclient.so. Are there any plans to do something like that in mariadb's libmysqlclient.so? I'm also wondering whether there are any particular plans to keep compatibility of the client library (libmysqlclient.so) between MariaDB and MySQL in the future. Honza
Hi Honza,
On 3 Nov 2015, at 13:55, Honza Horak <hhorak@redhat.com> wrote:
Hi, mysql 5.7 bumped soname of the libmysqlclient.so. Are there any plans to do something like that in mariadb's libmysqlclient.so?
I'm also wondering whether there are any particular plans to keep compatibility of the client library (libmysqlclient.so) between MariaDB and MySQL in the future.
mariadb.org says "MariaDB An enhanced, drop-in replacement for MySQL.” so removing such compatibility would drop that promise. Doing so would potentially require using Oracle MySQL libraries and maybe also having MariaDB libraries installed. I can see that being fun. I would hope that promise would be maintained or if not it would be clear to people how to work where necessary with both sets of libraries. That is clarify what “drop-in replacement" really means. Simon
Hi, Honza! On Nov 03, Honza Horak wrote:
Hi, mysql 5.7 bumped soname of the libmysqlclient.so. Are there any plans to do something like that in mariadb's libmysqlclient.so?
I'm also wondering whether there are any particular plans to keep compatibility of the client library (libmysqlclient.so) between MariaDB and MySQL in the future.
Sorry for the late answer. There is no decision at this point yet (I tried!), but I still wanted you to have something. Surely, no plans to bump the soname of libmysqlclient.so. None whatsoever, this was never discussed, not even mentioned in passing once. There are plans to switch completely to our LGPL client library - it's in active development, libmysqlclient.so is not. New features are added only to libmariadb.so. But there is no decision yet. Regards, Sergei Chief Architect MariaDB and security@mariadb.org
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