[mythtv] Drop MySQL 3.23?

Kevin Kuphal kuphal at dls.net
Mon Mar 5 21:33:05 UTC 2007


Nate Carlson wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>   
>> It's amazing how much extra code we have just to support MySQL 3.23. 
>> Even MySQL-version-independent SQL is a pain.  True, it's only 
>> independent of versions between 3.23 and 5.x, but that actually helps 
>> prove my point.
>>     
>
> Is there any reason we can't just drop MySQL 3.23 support?  How many 
> people are really using it anymore?
>
>   
I do, on my RH9 master backend.

But then I like to think I'm savvy enough to upgrade myself to whatever 
version is supported.  Gonna have to do that with PHP soon anyways.  I 
love the idea of running MySQL in a VMserver virtual machine because of 
this :)

Kevin


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