You've talked me down to -1. <opinion>Earliest adopters are going to be the power users coming from the mysql community who never needed all the features</opinion>
In my drizzle fantasy the invocations of the client and server are nearly identical to the way they are in mysql. That being said rtfm'ing to find out whether -p is port or password isn't that big a deal or just using --port and --password. Sounds like a future interview question: "What does -p do in mysql versus drizzle?" -s On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Jay Pipes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tim Soderstrom wrote: >> >> You can't -5. That's not how it works :) > > Actually, we actively encourage -5 :) If someone is adamantly opposed to > something, we should certainly let their opinion be strongly considered. Of > course, if the community is of a different opinion, the dissenter will need > to make a strong case, but we do indeed count negative votes with a bit more > weight... > >> Either way, I disagree with you. Drizzle doesn't seem to be built to look >> backwards (like MySQL has to do), but forwards. If the better approach, in >> the long run, is to fix these sorts of issues, I think it should be fixed. >> Drizzle is already not going to be an easy migration from MySQL, so I don't >> see why we need to preserve compatibility where it doesn't make any sense. > > Agreed on all points. Sean, given the above statement, do you have a > response? > > The vote isn't on importance; people are in agreement that it isn't critical > -- that's why it's on the Low Hanging Fruit milestone and not the Cirrus > milestone. > > Cheers, > > Jay > >> $0.02 >> >> Tim >> >> On Dec 8, 2008, at 1:33 PM, Sean Kelly wrote: >> >>> -5 extremely unimportant and possibly confusing to the core audience >>> that may migrate earliest from mysqld to drizzled >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Martin MC Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> On 8 Dec 2008, at 17:29, Eric Herman wrote: >>>> >>>>> Jay Pipes wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Added a Blueprint: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/drizzle/+spec/usability-cli-port-specification >>>>>> I've >>>>>> left the definition in "Discussed" status, and appended the task to >>>>>> the Low >>>>>> Hangin Fruit milestone, which is the ongoing "fix it if you can find >>>>>> time" >>>>>> milestone: >>>>>> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/drizzle/+milestone/low-hanging-fruit >>>>>> Please reply a +1 or -1 on whether this small usability change is a >>>>>> good >>>>>> idea. >>>>> >>>>> +1 >>>> >>>> >>>> +1 >>>> >>>> I'd prefer some higher number than one to indicate importance, but... >>>> >>>> MC >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Martin MC Brown, Technical Writer >>>> Database Technology Group, Sun Microsystems >>>> http://sun.com | http://mysql.com >>>> Phone: x18435/+44 247 669 8435 Skype: mcmcslp >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss >>>> Post to : [email protected] >>>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss >>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss >>> Post to : [email protected] >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
