[mythtv] [ANNOUNCE] Dropping MySQL v3 and v4 support in SVN

Mario Limonciello mario.mailing at gmail.com
Sat Dec 8 19:45:37 UTC 2007


David Engel wrote:
> This email is being sent to serve as a warning to users that we will
> be dropping support for MySQL v4 and below in SVN beginning Tuesday,
> December 11, 2007.  MySQL v5 will be the minimum supported version
> after that.
> 
> If you are currently running SVN trunk and are running MySQL v3 or v4,
> you should not update SVN until you have updated MySQL to v5 or later.
> Many of the MythTV developers have been running with MySQL v5 for
> quite some time so any problems with respect to MythTV and MySQL v5
> have long since been worked out.
> 
> We originally planned to drop support for MySQL v3 after MythTV
> 0.21 was released.  The 0.21 release has dragged on much longer than
> intended, so rather than hold off some new changes, we decided to make
> the switch to MySQL v5 now.
> 
> Finally, we have set a target date for the release of MythTV 0.21.  I
> don't know if the other developers are ready to go public with an
> exact date yet, so all I will say now is it is before March, 2008.
> 
> David
David,

If March 2008 will be the target date for 0.21, I believe we'll switch over to
using trunk around Jan/Feb for Ubuntu/hardy with some regular package
update/upgrades to make sure packaging is sane and ready to go for the
Ubuntu/hardy release in April.

Thanks,

-- 
Mario Limonciello
mario.mailing at gmail.com

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