MacPorts-MySQL Dictator wanted, prefer benevolent

[Brandon Allbery]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Bradley Giesbrecht <pixilla at macports.org>
wrote:

> > That's where the dictator comes in.  At the moment, I would say the
> obvious choices for a default MySQL variant would be mysql55, mariadb55 or,
> maybe, mysql56.  AFAICT there is no clear-cut, compelling reason to choose
> one over the others (technical, legal, religious, whatever).
>
> Momentum appears to be on the side of MariaDB
>

Agreed. In particular, most Linux distributions have adopted MariaDB as
their standard. (No doubt to the annoyance of the Percona adherents....)

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