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

[Mason James]

On 2012-08-21, at 5:30 AM, Christopher Nighswonger wrote:

> 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


i would be happy to participate on either of these two tasks


please consider making your development repos public :)