-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday, 2017-12-18 at 11:38 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Monday 2017-12-18 08:48, Simon Becherer wrote:
https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/mariadb-vs-mysql-compatibility/ "The shared client library is binary compatible with MySQL's client library" ..."All MySQL connectors (PHP, Perl, Python, Java, .NET, MyODBC, Ruby, MySQL C connector etc) work unchanged with MariaDB."
I have not checked *all* the possibilities, but quite a few.
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Distributions can in their free power patch it to a certain degree that makes it _less_ compatible than what upstream promotes.
That is what happened with mysql-community-server. Comparing Leap 42.3's mysql with Factory mariadb 10.1 ("libmysql56client.so.18" vs "libmysqlclient.so.18") shows:
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So to summarize: - Treat the incompatibility expressed by SONAME changes as exactly that: being incompatibile.
Thank you for this detailed explanation, appreciated :-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlo7qooACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UcYwCeIJ4DHInI9Es9EQTuLZylFfUW A5QAniJQIcTiGglmXNy0QnG+puSdt1+F =lr0y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org