Re: [Maria-discuss] MariaDB's tracking of MySQL changes

2013-02-04 Thread Kristian Nielsen
Christian Convey writes: > So what's the deal? Does MariaDB have alternative implementations for > just some of MySQL's components, and when a new MySQL release comes > out, MariaDB updates just those components for which it doesn't have > its own versions? That is more or less it, yes. - Kri

[Maria-discuss] MariaDB's tracking of MySQL changes

2013-02-03 Thread Christian Convey
Can someone explain the relationship between MySQL and MariaDB code updates? I've read that MariaDB is a drop-in *replacement* for MySQL. But I've also read that MariaDB treats MySQL as an upstream code base. So what's the deal? Does MariaDB have alternative implementations for just some of MyS