Bug#663182: Possible solution

[David Paleino]

On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:22:20 +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:13:30 +1100, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:
> 
> > I'd like to bring few more arguments to consideration.
> 
> And we should finally resolve this question :)
>  
> > I forgot to CC to David Paleino when I posted my idea of wrapper script so
> > I wrote to him and he replied with another good argument:
> > >   I think that, while the wrapper script is a good technical solution,
> > > it'll vastly reduce the usefulness of the package, and it will diverge it
> > > from what upstream distributes. This way we introduce a delta between
> > > Debian (and its derivatives) and all other *nix distributions with that
> > > package. We can consider this important or not, but we should take it into
> > >   consideration IMVHO.
> 
> The same is true for libmysql-diff-perl :)

Well, yes. But a mysqldiff provided by Oracle sounds a bit more "official" than
anything else :)
But I'm happy we found a possible solution...

> Anyway, I'm fine with renaming "our" mysqldiff to something else, my
> current favourite being mysqlschemadiff. Comments?

...that would be perfect for me. Dmitry?

Thanks Gregor for your comments!

David


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