{"id":2313,"date":"2010-04-02T09:30:06","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T07:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/?p=2313"},"modified":"2010-04-09T09:13:29","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T07:13:29","slug":"poll-what-minor-versions-of-mysql-should-be-supported-by-an-open-source-mysql-related-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/mysql\/poll-what-minor-versions-of-mysql-should-be-supported-by-an-open-source-mysql-related-project","title":{"rendered":"Poll: what (minor) versions of MySQL should be supported by an open source MySQL related project?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would like to get the community&#8217;s opinion about supporting older (minor) versions of MySQL in open source projects.<\/p>\n<p>If I were to develop some open source project, and a bug report came which only applied to MySQL <strong>5.0.51<\/strong> (but more recent versions worked fine), would I need to fix the code so as to support this older version?<\/p>\n<p>How about supporting <strong>5.0.22<\/strong> (released almost 4 years ago, with almost 70 revisions since)? Would you expect an open source project to support this MySQL version because, say, this is the <a href=\"http:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/mysql\/to-not-yum-or-to-not-apt-get\">default version in your yum repository<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>I would like to concentrate on the currently stable MySQL versions: <strong>5.0<\/strong> and <strong>5.1<\/strong>. Versions <strong>4.x<\/strong> are out of the question for me, and <strong>5.5<\/strong> is not yet GA.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, it would be great to support <em>everything<\/em>. But also time and effort consuming. So, I would greatly appreciate <em>your feedback<\/em>!<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n[poll id=&#8221;2&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would like to get the community&#8217;s opinion about supporting older (minor) versions of MySQL in open source projects. If I were to develop some open source project, and a bug report came which only applied to MySQL 5.0.51 (but more recent versions worked fine), would I need to fix the code so as to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[57,51],"class_list":["post-2313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mysql","tag-open-source","tag-opinions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2bZZp-Bj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2313"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2322,"href":"https:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313\/revisions\/2322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}