Daniel , How about Cacti? . Have you succesfully installed with mysql5? Has ayone? I'm having all kind of troubles to make it work on mysql5, and all recomendations go back to install mysql4
Regards, ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Ouellet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Marcos Laufer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <misc@openbsd.org> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 11:10 PM Subject: Re: mysql4 Marcos Laufer wrote: > I'm not sure that the reason mysql4 isn't in the packages is due to lack of > time > or resources.. > There must be some other reason, i think this because everytime there are > more > and more packages, so removing one that so many people use is kind of weird. http://openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html#PkgFAQ And the keep packages in sync with the OS. The version 4 was there a long time ago. Plus it's not the policy of the project to keep multiple version of a packages. PHP is an exception as an example, but sooner or later you can sure expect to see the PHP 4.x be drop all together for example. > I was thinking about upgrading (by making a fresh install) to 4.1 an old 3.4 > webserver that also runs mysql4, and i had the intention of installing > mysql4 on > the new one so no modification on applications are needed. No change in application would be needed really. Your SQL query are still SQL and will work as they are now. New version added new SQL functionality, but if you read MySQL, you will see, they didn't drop anything. Why would you think it wouldn't work. I see nothing to that effect at all. Any specific facts you want to share? > I can't upgrade the users applications because this server runs at least > 1000 > websites , the users won't like to modifiy their code, and i am not a > programmer > neither. Nor would you have too. You connect to the database either by sockets or TCP connections. As long as your server is setup properly, it does the same thing. Again, any facts you want to share to the contrary? > But if it's not in the packages , i guess i should have to compile it myself > then. > I just wanted to know the real reason (maybe there is a security reason) of > why > mysql4 isn't included in packages anymore, not just a guess. Again all explain here, not a guess: http://openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html#PkgFAQ And more specifically, quote "The ports collection is a volunteer project. Sometimes the project simply doesn't have the developer resources to keep everything up-to-date. Developers pretty much pick up what they consider interesting and can test in their environment. Your donations can make a difference for testing ports on more platforms." This statement also work both ways, meaning newer and older version. Simply not the resources to keep all possible version, plus it would pretty much useless if you asked me, witch I am sure you would disagree anyway. But no, my first answer wasn't speculations, or guess. Best, Daniel
