Re: DBD::mysql path forward

[email protected] (Darren Duncan) Thu, 9 Nov 2017 23:41:55 -0800
Newsgroups perl.dbi.dev,perl.dbi.users
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On 2017-11-09 10:50 PM, Alexander Hartmaier wrote:
> What about DBD::MariaDB as that‘s the name of the OpenSource version these days?

No, MariaDB is simply a fork of MySQL.  Both MariaDB and MySQL are Open Source. 
Saying only MariaDB is open source is wrong.

I also disagree with using the MariaDB name as that sends the wrong message. 
Keeping the MySQL name says its for all the (API-compatible) forks while using 
the MariaDB name implies that the MariaDB fork is more special than the others.

-- Darren Duncan