[Bioperl-l] Support for MariaDB in Bio::DB:SeqFeature:Store::DBI::

[Schlachter, Kai]

Hi there,

I took over an older project to modernize the underlaying hardware / software.
This also involves the use of gbrowse, which in turn relies quite a lot on BioPerl.

As our freshly provided servers are all Debian based and we are highly encouraged to use a most recent version of Debian inside of our containers (docker), I ran into the following issue:
Debian no longer supports MySQL but has switched to MariaDB, which leads me to the following:

I tried to install gbrowse, resolving all the dependencies and stuff that came along. I also was able to compile the DBD::MariaDB as this is the required module for MariaDB-Connections.
However I was not able to find a Module in Bio::DB:SeqFeature:Store::DBI called MariaDB, there is only Mysql :(
Although both adaptors should share at least some basic functionality, it is not possible to install the Mysql-Version on a recent Debian because DBD::MySQL will refuse to work with mariadb because of a version mismatch (expected 8.x but reported 10.y).

Are there any plans / ideas to add mariadb support to the modules?
I am not an original perl programmer so I don’t think it’s a good idea to start implementing / contributing with such a complex thing.

Greetings,

Kai
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