Opened 11 years ago

Closed 11 years ago

#39501 closed defect (fixed)

mariadb, percona: descriptions are identical to mysql ports'

Reported by: ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt) Owned by: pixilla (Bradley Giesbrecht)
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: ports Version: 2.1.3
Keywords: Cc: zquestz (Josh Ellithorpe)
Port: mariadb, percona

Description (last modified by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt))

The descriptions of all the MySQL ports are identical:

$ port info --name --long_description mysql4 mysql5{,1,5,6} mariadb percona
long_description: MySQL is an open-source, multi-threaded SQL database with a command syntax very similar to mSQL.
name: mysql4
--
long_description: MySQL is an open-source, multi-threaded SQL database with a command syntax very similar to mSQL.
name: mysql5
--
long_description: MySQL is an open-source, multi-threaded SQL database with a command syntax very similar to mSQL.
name: mysql51
--
long_description: MySQL is an open-source, multi-threaded SQL database with a command syntax very similar to mSQL.
name: mysql55
--
long_description: MySQL is an open-source, multi-threaded SQL database with a command syntax very similar to mSQL.
name: mysql56
--
long_description: MySQL is an open-source, multi-threaded SQL database with a command syntax very similar to mSQL.
name: mariadb
--
long_description: MySQL is an open-source, multi-threaded SQL database with a command syntax very similar to mSQL.
name: percona

That's not awful, except that I expected the description of mariadb to say "MariaDB is..." and for percona to say "Percona is...", and perhaps have a mention of being forks of MySQL.

In all these ports, the mention of mSQL is perhaps archaic. By now, I'd wager more people know what MySQL is than know what mSQL is.

Change History (2)

comment:1 Changed 11 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Description: modified (diff)

comment:2 Changed 11 years ago by pixilla (Bradley Giesbrecht)

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

I slipped updated descriptions into the last round of version updates. If a better description is desired suggestions would be welcome.

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