[Koha-devel] mysql version

[Jerry Van Baren]

Joshua Ferraro wrote:
> On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 05:00:11PM +0200, Paul POULAIN wrote:
> 
>>So the question is : do we want to define a minimum for running Koha ?
>>(knowing that, for example, mandriva default mySQL is 4.0 If we use a 
>>too recent version of Koha, then it will be harder to install)
> 
> I think 4.0 is a minimum for sure. For example, 3.23 doesn't include
> query_cache so everything runs _very_ slowly. I've not tried out 4.1
> but I'm not against it as a minimum. Since MySQL AB releases official
> RPMs for all version of MySQL, it's not too hard to install a newer
> version on RPM-based systems. Deb based systems have easy access to
> version 4.0.18 last time I checked, but no good way to get 4.1 --
> but with 'alien' or some other method there might be an easy way
> to install 4.1.
> 
> My two cents,
> 

FYI debian has 4.1 available in "testing".  The default mysql-server 
currently is 4.0.24 for "testing" ("stable" is 3.23.49).

http://packages.debian.org/testing/misc/mysql-server-4.1

gvb