On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
> Hello Jean-Michel Dault,
>
> 13.01.2000, Jean-Michel Dault wrote:
> > We removed Midgard from 7.0, because of many problems.
> > There is a licensing issue with MySQL that we haven't resolved yet. So we
> > have to distribute the GPL version. Midgard will only work with the
> > non-GPL MySQL, unfortunately.
> I'll investigate on this issue during a next week and will see how we
> can create a workaround.
It works, theres maybe some different mysql calls used but i didn't run
into any while porting globecom's jukebox.
> > Those issues will probably be solved with php4 and Midgard 2.0, which will
> > hopefully be included in Mandrake 7.1, if everything works properly.
> Midgard 2.0 will be released somewhen in a first quarter of 2000, but
> after final release of PHP4. Also, though it will have ODBC interface,
> there will be native MySQL and Oracle support. Hence, if you'll find
> some ODBC-compliant DB without MySQL's licensing restrictions, Midgard
> will work for Mandrake quite well.
nice :)
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> > On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Gary Travis Roberts wrote:
> >> It does not work, either through an install or an upgrade. It gives and
> >> error about some InitMySQL function missing from apache. Any ideas? This
> >> is in version 7.0b.
> Probably you don't have libmysqlclient.so.2 shared library. Some RPMs
> don't have such thing, but it could be created without problems from
> sources.
Which oxygen release, and which MySQL did you install?
> >> To my knowledge Midgard has never worked properly
> >> under Mandrake Linux. In 6.1 you could install it and it would run but
> >> you could not create new top level articles or sections for you site under
> >> the Content Admin tool.
> It was because a bug in authorization module of Midgard. This bug was
> fixed soon after 1.2.5 version was released and new tar-balls were
> uploaded to site.
6.1 didn't use 1.2.5 ;) but the 1.2.5 does have the fix, i don't remeber
without looking if i used the patch or updated tarballs, probably the
later.
> For now you can fetch current beta version of upcoming Midgard 1.2.6
> from my beta-test site http://www.midgard.f2s.com/
>
> It has no known bugs except one in Midgard-PHP's syntaxical analyzer
> which is triggered by PHPMyAdmin (other apps works without problems)
> but we recently located the bugged code and are working on a fix.
s'ok, PHPMyAdmin doesn't agree with the gpl mysql to much anyway ;)
> Also it features seamless integration into PHP 3.0.13 (and I'll do
> patches against PHP 3.0.14 tomorrow, but it seems that nothing
> Midgard-related has been changed since 3.0.13).
>
> Best regards,
> Alexander Bokovoy,
> Mantainer of Midgard 1.2.x branch.
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