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Should URI::mysql Switch to DBD::MariaDB?

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#perl #sqitch #mysql #mariadb

This entry was edited (6 months ago)
in reply to David Wheeler

If a newer DBD::MariaDB build will connect to older and newer MySQL DBs as well as to MariaDBs, using the FLOSSier dependency would be a good thing on principle as well as to allow receiving current patches.

(Some would call the latter pragmatic, but from a Security PoV, that's also a Principle.)

(If not, might need choice of both? eww.)