drizzle & mysql the fun starts now
well.. in my head anyway.
mysql 6.0.6 alpha was recently released, and with it a whole slew of patches (as one would expect).
So I got to thinking.. the problem with forking a large existing project is that you lose the testing that millions of people banging away at your product gives you.
going through the release notes I thought I saw 1 or 2 things that might be relevant to drizzle.
for example.. sorting.
Incompatible Change: Certain characters were sorted
incorrectly for the following collations: TILDE and GRAVE ACCENT
in big5_chinese_ci; LATIN SMALL LETTER J in cp866_general_ci;
TILDE in gb2312_chinese_ci; and TILDE in gbk_chinese_ci... Bug 25420
I am no way an expert in the mysql/drizzle internals but little things like this will make it hard I think.
How drizzle handles the patches in the main prong of the fork will be crucial in how it succeeds I would think. Focusing on making a lean server is fantastic news, and it fits in the way we develop apps over here at AOL. The list is full of energy, and great things will be done i'm sure. I look to one day having it as an option to deploy with.