I intend to file some low-hanging-fruit or even non-coding tasks/bugs in the coming days. I'm planning to have a section in the soon to be written newsletter for recruiting contributors to tasks of various skill levels: C++ code, build / test / packaging, documentation, web and marketing.
So I thought this discussion was a good one to start with: https://bugs.launchpad.net/drizzle/+bug/823272 Just wanted to let you know as there was a mailing list discussion to reply to. henrik On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Henrik Ingo <henrik.i...@avoinelama.fi> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 12:09 AM, Brian Aker <br...@tangent.org> wrote: >>> 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. >> >> At one point there was a lot of bugs in libc/etc. Shipping binaries was the >> only way to get a stable copy of MySQL. >> >> Today though? I would think it would be less problematic. > > The common use cases for using tar binaries today are > > - surprisingly many just like to install mysql in /usr/local/mysql as > their primary method. > > - in particular this allows them to keep many installations lying in > /usr/local/, switching between them with a symlink. With Deb/Rpm you > can only keep one version installed. > > - I assume I can install Drizzle alongside MySQL, but for the other > forks it's also an issue that people want to try out new versions > while also keeping the official MySQL 5.1 that came with the distro. > The same will be true for Drizzle: People want to keep the old version > installed while trying out newer releases or beta releases. > > I don't feel strongly about this, just providing feedback. > > henrik > -- > henrik.i...@avoinelama.fi > +358-40-8211286 skype: henrik.ingo irc: hingo > www.openlife.cc > > My LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=9522559 > -- henrik.i...@avoinelama.fi +358-40-8211286 skype: henrik.ingo irc: hingo www.openlife.cc My LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=9522559 _______________________________________________ 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
