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OurDelta produces enhanced builds for MySQL, with OurDelta and third-party patches, for common production platforms. All the builds are freely available for download.
All OurDelta patches are each maintained separately in our lp:ourdelta bzr tree, and applied to a MySQL source at build time. James Purser of Open Source On The Air (http://osota.fosscasts.org) describes OurDelta as “a new distribution for MySQL”.
We started with a baseline (for MySQL 5.0) of patches already assembled/created by Percona, plus the Sphinx engine. Various fixes and patches have been added since. Other features include the available target platforms and architectures, delivered through apt-get and yum repositories.
We’ve delivered builds for MySQL 5.0, and we’re working on 5.1, of course with the PBXT engine and other popular plugins and patches (such as new interesting developments from Mark Callaghan and the team at Google). We’ll deal with 6.0 after that.
For production environments (the real world!), some new additions are extremely useful and sometimes even vital for application performance as well as for maintenance and troubleshooting. For the MySQL Community to thrive, there is a need for upto-date builds on all relevant platforms, with speedy availability of new innovation both from inside Sun/MySQL as well as from other parties. This encourages testing and use in more environments, which in turn enhances the feedback cycle, and improves quality.
By the way, the site background picture is of the Nile delta, courtesy of NASA (public domain image).
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