<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Bradley Giesbrecht <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pixilla@macports.org" target="_blank">pixilla@macports.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">> That's where the dictator comes in. At the moment, I would say the obvious choices for a default MySQL variant would be mysql55, mariadb55 or, maybe, mysql56. AFAICT there is no clear-cut, compelling reason to choose one over the others (technical, legal, religious, whatever).<br>
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</span>Momentum appears to be on the side of MariaDB<br></blockquote></div><br>Agreed. In particular, most Linux distributions have adopted MariaDB as their standard. (No doubt to the annoyance of the Percona adherents....)<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div>
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