[gentoo-server] MySQL-4.1 and <- Max

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MySQL 4.1 release recently went from gamma status to stable - hooray!

We're hoping to leverage 4.1 in a new project and would be very anxious 
to get ahold of a stable, supported ebuild. I've seen a few submissions 
on bugs.gentoo.org, and it looks like a 4.1.3 ebuild is available and 
proclaimed "stable", but of course not yet imported into Portage and not 
tested in the least (officially, anyway.)

I am wondering if anyone has any suggestions on when we might see a 
4.1.x ebuild in Portage for MySQL.

Another thing - MySQL's new cluster'd server technology (appropriately 
named MySQL Cluster) is available in the MySQL Max distribution. (For 
those who don't know, Max is basically the same thing as the standard 
MySQL server package, along with some not-quite-ready for common use 
functionality like the BDB table handler and such.) Now, MySQL-4.1.7 is 
available and the Max release has the Cluster components packaged in; 
has anything like the Max thing ever been available in Portage? It looks 
like the mysql ebuild is simply the standard Server package. Having a 
Max package would be nice in order to get ahold of the MySQL Cluster 
components.

Anyway, just wondering status and hoping for discussion.

(BTW: the MySQL Max version is not the same as the MaxDB, which is their 
SAP offering.)

DS