On Sun, 1 May 2005, Dries Buytaert wrote:
At what point should we drop MySQL 3 support?
MySQL 4 has been released on October 21, 2001 [1] and a MySQL 5 BETA release is already available from [2].
From my investigation, making MySQL 4 a requirement would allow us to use row-level locking and transactions, two features that are becoming increasingly important. If would allow us to get rid of the various MySQL errors, and would bring us one step closer to true database integrity. It would be nice if we could take advantage of these in Drupal 4.7.
I agree. This would be nice to have and is essential for Drupal becoming even more the CMF is wants to be.
[1] http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/news/article_81.html [2] http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.0.html
Thoughts?
Generally, it will cause the same problem for me as switching to PHP 4.3 did. I run Debian and Debian stable does only provide MySQL 3. I haven't checked if there is a .deb for MySQL 4 on backports.org yet. However, since our database abstraction layer is very modular, I could even continue to use mysql 3 if I wrote an appropriate include file and would be willing to live without some of the more advanced features. The question is if we should ship a database.mysql3.inc file with Drupal 4.7 or not. Cheers, Gerhard