http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Running_MediaWiki_on_Mac_OS_X
Um, that doesn't seem so bad.
Try oracle. No really. I didn't know how much I loved Mysql until I
had to work on oracle....
On a *nix system, prebuilt mysql (RPM or otherwise) is a piece of
cake. Even compiling from scratch source is not so bad, and in some
ways easier.
Initial database setup? run the script, you're done.
Config changes? -- edit my.cnf -- obvious and easy.
Meanwhile in Oracle land... doom, doom, doom.... doomy-doom doom doom.
I thought about the pain I'd be in if there was an emergency system
failure on our oracle database -- so I automated the oracle install (via
kickstart).....
Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
Why is installing mysql the fun equivalent of picking a zit in your back?
It shouldn't be there, you need to do it because it hurts like a damn,
but you can't quite reach it, and you fail in mysterious ways, and shouldn't
science have progressed far enough by now to now to have to do it?
I installed MediaWiki to my Mac last night since I want to try writing something
that quite well fits the wiki hyperlinkage model, and I sure as hell
don't want to
write raw HTML this day and age... I found this:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Running_MediaWiki_on_Mac_OS_X
Notice the roughly 27 easy steps of installing mysql.
I don't think it's that mysql in OS X in particular, from my past (unfortunately
forgotten by now) experience in other UNIXes it was equally painful. Why do I
*always* have to disable remote and local (myql) root access and setup
passwords?
Storing the access rights of a database *IN THE DATABASE*? Please,
just shoot me.
