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[ANNOUNCE] Dropping MySQL v3 and v4 support in SVN

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david at istwok

Dec 8, 2007, 8:55 AM

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[ANNOUNCE] Dropping MySQL v3 and v4 support in SVN

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
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pstehlik at sophics

Dec 8, 2007, 10:45 AM

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Re: [ANNOUNCE] Dropping MySQL v3 and v4 support in SVN [In reply to]

David Engel píše v So 08. 12. 2007 v 10:55 -0600:
> the switch to MySQL v5 now.

Good. One year after releasing Debian stable (the most conservative
distro around) it is fully safe to drop old MySQL support, IMHO.

> 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.

This is very appreciated by those that swear for months that will work
on translating Myth but can't find enough encouragement :-)

Maybe you could even announce a date of feature freeze and perhaps also
some translation 'window' when strings are frozen already and
translations are still accepted to SVN.

Petr

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mario.mailing at gmail

Dec 8, 2007, 11:45 AM

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Re: [ANNOUNCE] Dropping MySQL v3 and v4 support in SVN [In reply to]

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,

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bjm at lvcm

Dec 8, 2007, 1:41 PM

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Re: [ANNOUNCE] Dropping MySQL v3 and v4 support in SVN [In reply to]

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.

To reiterate this, state a few things 'the other way around'
and point out a few details, we will 'support' MySQL 5.x or
later in MythTV version 0.21 and later.

MythTV has supported MySQL version 3.23 as a minimum standard
for several years. Compatibility issues for version 5.x were
resolved nearly two years ago. Most Linux distributions have
offered MySQL 5.x for a long time and most mythtv users are
currently using 5.x whether they know it or not. To verify:

$ mysqld --version

If your version is 5.x, g'day.

-- bjm

For the few that remain, in order to take advantage of some
optimizations and resolve some workarounds, code changes will
use features that were not yet available in 3.23. Currently,
there are no plans for any change that would fail for the
last release of 4.x and succeed for 5.0.0 so later versions
of 4.x may continue to work for some time. However, we will not
test or resolve bugs related to versions 3.x or 4.x. Therefore,
upgrade to version 5.x now for code changes to SVN HEAD starting
this week.

The requirement will not change for 0.20-fixes but 0.21 will
require MySQL 5.x so we recommend that you upgrade your database
and resolve any issues at your convenience in the next few weeks
in anticipation of the 0.21 release no earlier than February 2008.

Although both project names begin with "My", mythtv.org does not
develop or provide support for MySQL software. Before your upgrade,
mythtv.org recommends that you backup your 'mythconverg' database:

http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-23.html#ss23.5

If you have any questions, concerns, issues, need troubleshooting
or hand holding help for your MySQL upgrade, please seek assistance
from the authoritative resources at http://www.mysql.org/ .
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mythtv at longhome

Dec 9, 2007, 12:46 AM

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Re: [ANNOUNCE] Dropping MySQL v3 and v4 support in SVN [In reply to]

Are there plans to get multirec merged in to trunk before this release?

Martin

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