Comments on: MySQL spins and forks http://worldgonemad.com/blogs/pantoniades/2010/03/mysql-spins-and-forks/ If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be. - Yogi Berra Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:37:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jay Pipes http://worldgonemad.com/blogs/pantoniades/2010/03/mysql-spins-and-forks/comment-page-1/#comment-38 Jay Pipes Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:37:38 +0000 http://worldgonemad.com/blogs/?p=20#comment-38 Spork? ;) Spork? ;)

]]> By: Brian Aker http://worldgonemad.com/blogs/pantoniades/2010/03/mysql-spins-and-forks/comment-page-1/#comment-37 Brian Aker Tue, 23 Mar 2010 23:10:07 +0000 http://worldgonemad.com/blogs/?p=20#comment-37 Hi! I keep thinking that eventually the deltas will get tired of porting their changes between versions. We gave up very early on the idea of collecting patches from the MySQL tree. In retrospect? I am very happy we did that. It has allowed for a lot of flow in innovation that would not have happened otherwise. Cheers, -Brian Hi!

I keep thinking that eventually the deltas will get tired of porting their changes between versions. We gave up very early on the idea of collecting patches from the MySQL tree. In retrospect? I am very happy we did that. It has allowed for a lot of flow in innovation that would not have happened otherwise.

Cheers,
-Brian

]]> By: pantoniades http://worldgonemad.com/blogs/pantoniades/2010/03/mysql-spins-and-forks/comment-page-1/#comment-36 pantoniades Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:00:25 +0000 http://worldgonemad.com/blogs/?p=20#comment-36 @Henrik I would say in the future you could become a fork, but not retroactively. Forkness is not permenant - egcs is no longer a fork, for example. @Henrik I would say in the future you could become a fork, but not retroactively. Forkness is not permenant – egcs is no longer a fork, for example.

]]> By: Roland Bouman http://worldgonemad.com/blogs/pantoniades/2010/03/mysql-spins-and-forks/comment-page-1/#comment-35 Roland Bouman Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:22:30 +0000 http://worldgonemad.com/blogs/?p=20#comment-35 How about "patched up version"? "Faux-fork"? just offering :) roland. How about “patched up version”? “Faux-fork”? just offering :)

roland.

]]> By: Henrik Ingo http://worldgonemad.com/blogs/pantoniades/2010/03/mysql-spins-and-forks/comment-page-1/#comment-34 Henrik Ingo Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:46:34 +0000 http://worldgonemad.com/blogs/?p=20#comment-34 You are absolutely right that other than Drizzle, the other MySQL incarnations are not "forks". Otoh ESR is right that the word "fork" is commonly used also for what MariaDB and XtraDB are. Monty tries to say that MariaDB is a branch of MySQL, since it is not a fork. I haven't quite got attached to that either, since branch make me think of bzr, git and other distributed scm's. Good luck proposing "spins", if it catches on I'll use it, if not... I guess it is fork? Btw, one perspective to this is that you cannot observe "history in the making". So if 5 years from now we still exchange code and remain compatible, then no, it wasn't a fork. If 5 years from now we are separate codebases, then yes, this was already the fork. I'm apparently in a philosphical mood. Will go tosleep now. You are absolutely right that other than Drizzle, the other MySQL incarnations are not “forks”. Otoh ESR is right that the word “fork” is commonly used also for what MariaDB and XtraDB are.

Monty tries to say that MariaDB is a branch of MySQL, since it is not a fork. I haven’t quite got attached to that either, since branch make me think of bzr, git and other distributed scm’s. Good luck proposing “spins”, if it catches on I’ll use it, if not… I guess it is fork?

Btw, one perspective to this is that you cannot observe “history in the making”. So if 5 years from now we still exchange code and remain compatible, then no, it wasn’t a fork. If 5 years from now we are separate codebases, then yes, this was already the fork.

I’m apparently in a philosphical mood. Will go tosleep now.

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