Bug 330218

Summary:	Add support for MariaDB database backend
Product:	[Applications] KEXI	Reporter:	Jarosław Staniek <staniek>
Component:	General	Assignee:	Kexi Bugs <kexi-bugs>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	adam, inksi
Priority:	LO	Keywords:	junior-jobs
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	All
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Description Jarosław Staniek 2014-01-20 21:24:41 UTC

MariaDB is a fork of the MySQL source code, split off in the wake of concerns over future licensing of MySQL. Thus supporting MariaDB in parallel with MySQL it's worth considering.

From https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-versus-mysql-compatibility:
For all practical purposes, MariaDB is a binary drop in replacement of the same MySQL version. 

It would be good to share as much code of the existing mysql driver with the mariadb driver.

To minimize costs it's reasonable to wait until Predicate is used in Kexi and perform this task for Predicate.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Jarosław Staniek 2015-09-29 19:41:36 UTC

In fact this wish is mostly about _displaying_ the name MariaDB instead of MySQL. At least openSUSE's packages such as libmysqlclient18 say:

"This package contains the shared libraries (.so) which certain languages and applications need to dynamically load and use MariaDB. Distribution: server:database / openSUSE_13.2"

it seems that Kexi's (and KDb's) detection of mysql libs/headers works no matter if MariaDB or rather MySQL is installed.