[phpMyAdmin Developers] Drizzle support possible removal

Marc Delisle marc at infomarc.info
Sat Aug 22 20:08:54 CEST 2015


Le 2015-08-22 12:31, Alec Teal a écrit :
> On 22/08/15 17:03, Marc Delisle wrote:
>>> I think we (you lot) should wait a few months at least, I'll look into
>>> seeing if I could do it. While it's not phpMyAdmin's job to support
>>> other ones (eg MariaDB) it's good that it does!
>> You'll look into what, exactly? Maintain Drizzle?
>>
>> We believe that it's our job to also support MariaDB since it's so close
>> to MySQL and in some distros, is even replacing MySQL.
> Yes, MariaDB is a lot closer to MySQL and is the better project (it's a
> drop in replacement). I meant I'd look into Drizzle and see if I could
> maintain it. I've been using PMA since I was like 14, it's the least I
> can do, it gives me an excuse to start learning the internals anyway.
> Leave it with me.

You want to maintain Drizzle itself (the database)? or Drizzle's support
in phpMyAdmin?

We don't have a problem maintaining Drizzle's support in phpMyAdmin, but
we don't even think that it's worth doing, seeing that the Drizzle
database itself is unmaintained.

>>> Alec
>>>
>>> On 22/08/15 13:12, Marc Delisle wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> The Drizzle codebase seems unmaintained; therefore the phpMyAdmin
>>>> development team is considering a removal of Drizzle support. The
>>>> choice
>>>> for a Drizzle server has already been removed from our demo server.
>>>>
>>>> Is someone out there using Drizzle?



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Marc Delisle | phpMyAdmin



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