[Koha-devel] Disappearing test cases or did another part of MySQL just become closed source? « The MariaDB Blog

[Christopher Nighswonger]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Marc Balmer <marc at msys.ch> wrote:
> I stumbled over this blog entry:
>
> http://blog.mariadb.org/disappearing-test-cases/
>
> It is this development of MySQL that make me so unhappy with the fact that Koha runs on MySQL only at the moment.
>
> Imo, Koha  would be a much better product if it used PostgreSQL as the database system.
>

I'd bet the move to MariaDB will happen well before the move to PG
unless opinions are accompanied by code. :-)

MySQL is essentially closed source at this point anyway, and MariaDB
is pretty much a drop-in replacement requiring only minimal changes.
AAMOF I have a git branch hanging around somewhere with several
patches to this end on it.

Kind Regards,
Chris