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

[Timothy Parnell]

Regarding support for DBD::MariaDB, here is one (naive), hack solution: Simply copy the Bio/DB/SeqFeature/DBI/mysql.pm file as mariadb.pm, and search and replace “MySQL” with “MariaDB” as appropriate (watch capitalization, etc). Since MariaDB is (more or less) a drop-in replacement for MySQL, in theory this should work just fine. If I remember correctly, the SQL commands and structures are not terribly complicated and fairly standard, so I wouldn’t expect much more modification. If it does work, it might be worth a pull request.

Tim