Excerpts from Henrik Ingo's message of Sun Jun 26 21:40:00 +0100 2011: > Hi > > When working on the new website, I noticed neither the reference > manual or download links point to a binary tarball as potential > installation method. Is it correct it doesn't exist? If yes, what is > the background story? My experience in MySQL world is those are pretty > popular format to use MySQL in.
I think that is mostly a product of the poor mysql build story. There was a time where building mysql was dark black magic, and often caused deep issues for people. The binary tarball was more supportable for mysql. Drizzle tests builds heavily on many platforms, and so, I think can let the distributions and users themselves handle builds. The whole point of Drizzle is that its a database that you can actually hack on, and not having binary tarballs improves that story quite a bit by not saying "our build is better than yours". _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : drizzle-discuss@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
