* benh shaped the electrons to say...
If that's the case, mentioning that in the FreeBSD section of the Installation.txt file would be helpful, because there's no mention of this MySQL server dependency there right now. To read that, you'd think all you have to do is run the build script, maybe install the MySQL client libs, and all is peachy.
Yes - I'll do so.
Happy to file an enhancement bug to fix that doc if you'd like, and maybe even come up with some suggested text, if I have the time and can clean up (and test and repeat) what I did to get DBD::MySQL to build.
Sounds good.
Also would be curious as to the reasons surrounding that decision. I'm assuming it had something to do with the time/resources required to support the binary builds under FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Solaris, vs actual numbers of users of SlimServer under those OSes?
Exactly. It's also a support issue - we can't officially support all those platforms, it's just too much for our team.
One of the things I really liked about 6.3.x was that it was a brainless install under FreeBSD. The build script took care of grabbing and installing everything necessary, it was all nicely segregated from the rest of the system binaries, and that was, well, nice and clean.
6.3 relied on fewer binary modules, and didn't have an external database. -D -- <iNoah> all your base class are belong to us _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
