Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] Remove MySQL Tools from Source?

2004-04-18 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Christopher Kings-Lynne said: But you would have to assign the copyright to them If someone is going to make money from my code, I prefer it to be me, or at least that everyone has a chance to do so rather than just one company. Well, then for the same reason we should write a Perl

Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] Remove MySQL Tools from Source?

2004-04-18 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Tom Lane wrote: These tools are a not insignificant part of our Plan for World Domination ;-) so it would be good if somebody stepped up to the plate and volunteered to take care of 'em. Anybody? Which brings me to another question I have a bunch of perl scripts, as well as one user-defined

Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] Remove MySQL Tools from Source?

2004-04-18 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Shachar Shemesh wrote: Tom Lane wrote: These tools are a not insignificant part of our Plan for World Domination ;-) so it would be good if somebody stepped up to the plate and volunteered to take care of 'em. Anybody? Which brings me to another question I have a bunch of perl scripts, as

Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] Remove MySQL Tools from Source?

2004-04-18 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Andrew Dunstan wrote: Christopher Kings-Lynne said: But you would have to assign the copyright to them If someone is going to make money from my code, I prefer it to be me, or at least that everyone has a chance to do so rather than just one company. Well, then for the same

Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] Remove MySQL Tools from Source?

2004-04-17 Thread Jan Wieck
Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: ... on projects.postgresql.org, or similar.They really aren't doing any good in /contrib. I've already set up a category conversion tools on pgFoundry, and my idea was one project per target system. I reckon that by far the best way to do a mysql2pgsql

Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] Remove MySQL Tools from Source?

2004-04-17 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Jan Wieck wrote: Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: ... on projects.postgresql.org, or similar.They really aren't doing any good in /contrib. I've already set up a category conversion tools on pgFoundry, and my idea was one project per target system. I reckon that by far the best way to

Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] Remove MySQL Tools from Source?

2004-04-17 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
But you would have to assign the copyright to them If someone is going to make money from my code, I prefer it to be me, or at least that everyone has a chance to do so rather than just one company. Well, then for the same reason we should write a Perl script that connects to MySQl and

Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] Remove MySQL Tools from Source?

2004-04-16 Thread Josh Berkus
Scott, the sad thing is that while MySQL implemented a -ansi switch that supposedly turns on ansi compliance, it only fixes about 1/2 of all the non-compliance issues. Yet another half-implemented feature... :) Plus they completely broke ansi-compliance with the latest version of

Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] Remove MySQL Tools from Source?

2004-04-14 Thread Tom Lane
Josh Berkus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And what to do with the other db conversion tools? Seems they should be kept together. ... on projects.postgresql.org, or similar.They really aren't doing any good in /contrib. Fair enough. They're not tightly tied to the backend, so I see no

Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] Remove MySQL Tools from Source?

2004-04-14 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
... on projects.postgresql.org, or similar.They really aren't doing any good in /contrib. I've already set up a category conversion tools on pgFoundry, and my idea was one project per target system. I reckon that by far the best way to do a mysql2pgsql converter is to just modify mysqldump