Chadrick Mahaffey wrote:
>what does all this mean? I tried to type this in my command console
changin
>/ to \ and I don't understand what is happening. I get all kinds of
errors.
It looks to me that you're trying to use the Unix install notes - don't!
Refer to section
2.1.2 in the excellent manual, (worth downloading so you've a local copy).
>Open source would go much farther if they had self explanatory GUIs and
had
>basic pre-setup apps that were ready for the average user to use.
Why? Maybe I'm really offbeam, but I'd suggest that MySQL is more of a
server product than one which should reside on the desktop. Further, why
then saddle the server admin with a GUI. In my experience even the best GUI
is not as flexible as a half-decent command line installer. A GUI is fine
if you've to install on just your PC, but there's no way I'd be happy if I
was doing multiple installs - at least with the command line you can make a
small (one-line?) batch file to do the job on however many systems you
have. I could be mean and turn this on it's head - if you want a GUI, do it
yourself and then contribute it back!
>Most open source apps I have attempted to use have some of the worse
documentation around. The writers
>assume so much about the users.
You've been very unlucky then. Nearly all the major apps, (and most of the
smaller ones), have excellent docs, simply because the vocal user community
wouldn't let them away with anything else! (If you don't like a bit in the
manual rewrite it and submit it back ?) That said, I will agree slightly in
that some of the app docs are very Unix-centric (not MySQL's), and I
personally find the Apache manual a bit hard to use. For your core apps
it's probably worth getting one of the 3rd party books, (the MySQL one is
very good indeed).
>OK - call me inept, stupid, or whatever but I had to say it.
Fair enough - you're stupid! ;-) Quote for you "real stupidity is quite
rare, (except in politicians where it seems to be a qualification), and
what is generally perceived as 'stupidity' is nothing more than
inexperience", can't remember who to attribute this to, but it seems pretty
apposite. As to MySQL I'm just past the "caveman" stage myself. Keep in
there and it'll all fall into place, (with a bit of help from this mailing
list), and then who knows?
Regards
Bob Cross - writing for myself in this instance
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