mysql@5.7: disable

[iMichka]

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[iMichka]

It has been more than six months now.

There are still more than 6000 downloads / month but users have been warned for some time now.

[chenrui333]

extended support ended 9 months ago

[mickeyreiss]

@chenrui333 This was a breaking change for me. Given that Google Cloud Platform will continue to offer "extended support" for MySQL 5.7 through February 2028¹, I'd recommend reverting this change for now.

Footnotes

1. https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/mysql/db-versions#database-version-support ↩

[iMichka]

Hello. Yes it's a breaking change but the EOL timeline is known since a very long time, and we don't support EOL versions.

GCP might have extended support, but we would not have access to their source code? Not even sure we would be allowed to ship their patches and updates ...

[mickeyreiss]

@iMichka This is for local developer environments on MacOS who are creating applications that will use GCP's Cloud SQL MySQL 5.7 in production. In this use-case, they simply need a stable version of MySQL 5.7 - doesn't necessarily need to be the exact GCP fork.

[SMillerDev]

In this use-case, they simply need a stable version of MySQL 5.7 - doesn't necessarily need to be the exact GCP fork.

And we need a supported version of the codebase. I agree it doesn't have to be the GCP version, but it must be a version.