On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, Ray Zimmerman wrote:
On Jul 14, 2006, at 5:27 PM, Chris Johnson wrote:
Gerhard Killesreiter wrote:
Hi there! MySQL AB (the company behind our most used database) has announced a change in support options for their database products. http://www.mysql.com/company/legal/mysql_lifecycle_policy.pdf
Given this announcement, I agree completely with Gerhard. Let's drop support for MySQL 3.x and consider dropping support for 4.0 as well with Drupal release 4.8.
Just to be clear, extended support (security updates and fixes for severity level 1 bugs) for MySQL 4.0 does extend through the end of 2008. So the lack of security updates argument only applies to 3.x.
Ray
And many distros are stuck witih 4.0, including RHEL 4. I think requiring 4.1 would be a royal pain for thousands of users, no? John ---- aim/yim/msn/jabber.org: johnjosephbachir 713.494.2704 irc://irc.freenode.net/lyceum http://lyceum.ibiblio.org/ http://blog.johnjosephbachir.org/