[gentoo-dev] Slotted MySQL ; mysql-herd

["Francesco R." <vivo@gentoo.org>]

There are these ebuilds in cvs from few minutes:

mysql-4.0.26-r30.ebuild 
mysql-4.1.15-r30.ebuild 
mysql-5.0.15-r30.ebuild

these ones contain a starting point ebuild to make a slotted mysql 
installation.

The motivations that push this choice are both developement and user 
side. Making a long story short there are two points:

We want to support every major.minor version of mysql, having slotted 
mysql make life easyer to developers in testing all supported versions.

User side, slotted mysql server and client make possible a smooter 
upgrade, keeping downtimes to the minimum (a stop and start in the best 
case).

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Further these days I was wondering to populate a bit more "mysql-herd" 
of developers and packages, also to cover my personal lack of knowledge 
on some languages (deeper explanation in private mails ;-)

So if you're interested in join the herd, let me know (sorry non-dev, I 
cannot mentor these days).

I'm listed on devaway from 2005-10-01 to 2005-10-10, will answer when 
I'll come back.

Cheers,
Francesco Riosa
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