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On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 09:42:00PM -0500, Caleb Cushing wrote: |
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> is there anything preventing mysql* ebuilds from being slotted? there' |
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> be a mysql 3, 4, 4.1, 5, 5.1, 6.0 slots |
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Large degrees of headache. The MySQL team tried it years ago, you'll |
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find some some mentions of mysql-slotted in the history of our eclasses, |
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and the mysql patchsets. |
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Was ultimately dropped for the degree of maintenance headache involved - |
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which included modifying lots of programs to look for the MySQL |
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libraries differently, and bugs triggered when shared libraries were |
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linked against different versions and then used together. |
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There's not much actual need to use a slotted MySQL anyway. |
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Building a newer client (Say from 5.1) works against older servers quite |
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fine. |
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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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