[TYPO3-core] Raise MySQL requirements?

[Markus Klein]

Hi!

I'm on Fedora 19 with MariaDB. Works just as normal, though I didn't try the version 10 yet.

Kind regards
Markus

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Markus Klein
TYPO3 CMS Active Contributors Team Member

> -----Original Message-----
> From: typo3-team-core-bounces at lists.typo3.org [mailto:typo3-team-core-
> bounces at lists.typo3.org] On Behalf Of Michael Stucki
> Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 2:54 PM
> To: typo3-team-core at lists.typo3.org
> Subject: Re: [TYPO3-core] Raise MySQL requirements?
> 
> Hi Jigal,
> 
> > According to Oracle Lifetime Support Policy [1] the Premier Support
> > has ended for MySQL 5.1. It's also mentioned on the Reference Manual
> > page [2] as "End of Product Lifecycle" that "Active development for
> > MySQL Database Server version 5.1 has ended".
> >
> > On the Ubuntu 13.10 distribution I installed last weekend MySQL 5.6
> > was installed by default through the package manager.
> 
> Are you sure? I have 13.10 too but MySQL is 5.5.34 (see also [1]).
> 
> > Maybe it's time to raise the requirements?
> >
> > Lower limit.
> > It might be the case that some LTS distributions still ship with MySQL
> > 5.1, so we should keep that perhaps? (As a side note: MySQL jumped
> > from
> > 5.1 to 5.5, so 5.2, 5.3 or 5.4 never existed)
> 
> Right. We had a similar discussion recently regarding PHP requirements, and
> the agreement was to stay compatible with various LTS products [2].
> 
> Currently, there is RHEL 6.5 which still ships with MySQL 5.1 [3]. This means
> we still have to wait...
> 
> > Upper limit.
> > Latest versions are 5.6.15, 5.5.35 (5.7.x are still "Milestone"
> > releases). Maybe it's time for 6.2 to also support 5.6.x?
> 
> Here I agree, the compatibility with 5.6 should be checked and (if
> necessary) be fixed. However, out of the 4 LTS products mentioned above,
> all are using either 5.1 or 5.5. Not even Ubuntu uses 5.6 yet.
> 
> Besides that, I'm wondering why you want to raise the requirement? Is there
> any feature of MySQL 5.5 that you like to use in TYPO3 CMS? Right now we're
> using a very basic feature set, so why change it?
> 
> One more thing: We should think about MariaDB support too. Has anyone
> ever tried that yet? It is almost completely compatible with MySQL, however
> their version number was raised to 10.x which is no longer in sync with
> MySQL. See [4] for more info.
> 
> If it turns out that TYPO3 runs fine with MariaDB, then we should allow it
> similar like we require just one of either ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick...
> 
> Greetings, Michael
> 
> [1] http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=mysql
> [2]
> http://typo3.org/teams/core-development-team/resources/release-
> workflow/
> (see "Platform support")
> [3] http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=redhat
> [4] https://mariadb.com/kb/en/what-is-mariadb-100/
> 
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> Michael Stucki
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