Re: sql.el MariaDB support

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Robert Cochran <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2018 20:07:50 -0700
> 
> I've decided that I want to spend a little bit of time improving the
> MariaDB support in sql.el to make a nicer experience, namely changing
> the prompt regexps so that the prompts will actually show up without
> having to fiddle with sql-prompt-regexp.
> 
> What I'm not so sure about, and thus asking here, is whether or not to
> put the MariaDB changes in with the MySQL product? MariaDB is still a
> drop-in replacement for MySQL AFAIK, so in my mind it wouldn't be
> unreasonable to lump those two together as a single product. But I'm not
> well-versed on what doing that may imply.
> 
> TBH, I'd rather lump them together, as really all I'm intending to do is
> modify the continuation prompt regexps to work for either database, and
> making a whole separate MariaDB product would be overkill in my mind.
> 
> Thoughts?

I hope Micheal (CC'ed) will have comments on your proposal.

Thanks.