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

[Steven Ellis]

Hadley Rich wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Thought this may be of interest to those that haven't seen it. It references 
> the release schedule for 0.21.
>   
So we might just about get it in time for Ubuntu Hardy and the DTT
launch in April.

Shame the multirec support is currently unlikely to appear in 0.21.

Steve

> hads
>
> ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
>
> Subject: [mythtv] [ANNOUNCE] Dropping MySQL v3 and v4 support in SVN
> Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2007
> From: David Engel <david at istwok.net>
> To: Development of mythtv <mythtv-dev at mythtv.org>
>
> 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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