mysql server out of the list

[Stephan Erickson]

Hello Robert, 

I think Sinisa Milivojevic should be able to explain the details of his
reasoning to you. I was forwarding Kaj's response at his own request,
including Sinisa's comments (both are from MySQL). 

- Stephan


Robert Collins wrote:
> 
> ===
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stephan Erickson" <erickson@mufassa.com>
> To: <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>
> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 12:35 PM
> Subject: mysql server out of the list
> 
> > Looks like the MySQL server is not doable due to the way Cygwin
> threads
> > are implemented, according to the authors.. Only 3 packages then.
> > - Stephan
> >
> >
> >
> > Kaj Arnö writes:
> > > Stephan,
> > >
> > > As opposed to a number of other products with a Unix background,
> MySQL
> > > already works well under Windows without any cygwin. Interfacing
> MySQL
> > > with cygwin is thus not needed; performance would deteriorate, and a
> port
> > > would likely incur problems with threads.
> > >
> > > However, the mysql command line interface could be ported to cygwin;
> it
> > > might even be that this has already been done.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Kaj
> > >
> >
> > Few additional comments to Kaj's excellent message.
> >
> > Kaj is right on all accounts. And yes, our client has been ported with
> > Cygwin, and is a part of every Win32 distro, under the name of
> > mysqlc.exe.
> 
> Which, last I heard, still doesn't include the cygwin source, and is in
> fact a GPL violation (see the thread I started on the win32-mysql list).
> 
> > Regarding a server, as CygWin does not support properly threads on
> > Win32, it is not doable. This is not important, as VC++, which we use
> > for building MySQL for Win32,  still makes 10% faster code then latest
> > CygWin.
> 
> I'm the Cygwin pthreads maintainer, can you specify what you mean by
> 'does not support properly threads on win32' ?
> 
> Rob

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