> On Nov 8, 2017, at 12:17, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote: > > On 2017/11/08 10:53, Peter Faiman wrote: >>> On Nov 8, 2017, at 09:39, Jeremy Evans <jer...@openbsd.org> wrote: >>> >>>>> On 11/08 10:37, Brad Smith wrote: >>>>> On 11/6/2017 7:21 AM, Jeremy Evans wrote: >>>>> >>>>> This patch brings us up to the latest stable version of MariaDB. >>>>> Unfortunately, MariaDB made many backwards incompatible changes to the >>>>> headers and some backwards incompatible changes to the structures, and >>>>> most dependencies are going to need changes. This patch includes >>>>> necessary changes to the following dependencies: >>>> I wish you would have said something to me before starting on this as I >>>> would >>>> have told you 10.2 is a no go for us as the new client library requires >>>> atomic ops >>>> killing the client library on a handful of archs. >>> >>> What's the plan to move forward? You can't expect to run 10.0 forever. >>> >>> Honestly, I don't care much about MySQL/MariaDB one way or another. I >>> just had some free time during the hackathon and noticed this was quite >>> a bit out of date. So if this doesn't go anywhere, that's OK. >>> >>> Jeremy >> >> There are other packages that have multiple versions available. Is that not >> an option for MariaDB? >> >> Peter > > That doesn't really work with libraries.
I was thinking of the ruby and lua libraries versioned to the interpreter but now that you mention it I realize those aren’t quite the same.
