Re: Fw: [gentoo-dev] mysql commercial

2006-01-16 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Tuesday 03 January 2006 21:35, Steve Rodgers wrote: > thanks for the feedback. > I agree - the gentoo build is excellent. It's only to meet with our > legal obligations. That legal obligation arises from our non-GPL C app > which links against libmysqlclient. Do you know if it would be enough >

Re: Fw: [gentoo-dev] mysql commercial

2006-01-03 Thread Steve Rodgers
thanks for the feedback. I agree - the gentoo build is excellent. It's only to meet with our legal obligations. That legal obligation arises from our non-GPL C app which links against libmysqlclient. Do you know if it would be enough to deploy and use the gentoo build of mysql but with our softw

RE: Fw: [gentoo-dev] mysql commercial

2006-01-03 Thread Matthew Marlowe
>> start of this year and investigated the options for commercial support of >> mysql >> under gentoo at that time. This investigation included attending the mysql >> 2004 user conference and talking to several decision makers within mysql Oops. Should be last year, and 2005 user conference.

RE: Fw: [gentoo-dev] mysql commercial

2006-01-03 Thread Matthew Marlowe
Steve, >> >> so unless it's of real use to others I might just continue to support it >> myself. >> I'm already packaging up other internal apps using a portage overlay. >> I had several clients deploying mysql server clusters in large webfarms at the start of this year and investigated the op

Re: [gentoo-dev] mysql commercial

2006-01-03 Thread Steve Rodgers
I don't mind maintaining it though on amd64 if it would be of use. This will be maintained by me anyway internally - would it be useful to sign up as a developer? There are other apps I have been building ebuilds for - such as ChartDirector - another commercial app - which I could contribute too.

Re: [gentoo-dev] mysql commercial

2006-01-03 Thread Steve Rodgers
so unless it's of real use to others I might just continue to support it myself. I'm already packaging up other internal apps using a portage overlay. FYI - if you deploy an app which is non-gpl which links against mysql libs then you need to deploy against a commercial version of mysql. this is b

Re: [gentoo-dev] mysql commercial

2006-01-03 Thread Francesco Riosa
Jakub Moc wrote: [...] > Dunno what exactly "commercial" means here, it you mean official -bin, > there's some overlay and ebuilds in Bug 83424, there's also some weird [...] Please forget that one, it's broken, and the quantity and the size of the binary packages to download make an hell to maint

Re: [gentoo-dev] mysql commercial

2006-01-03 Thread Jakub Moc
3.1.2006, 18:54:07, Steve Rodgers wrote: > Hi does anyone have any experience of deploying mysql commercial build into a > gentoo platform? > Several mysql dependencies such as php will need to have the ebuild slot > there so I guess it's > up to me to maintain an overlay equivalent that provi

Re: [gentoo-dev] mysql commercial

2006-01-03 Thread Francesco Riosa
Steve Rodgers wrote: It isn't very clear to what it needed here but I'll try to answer anyway > Hi does anyone have any experience of deploying mysql commercial build into a > gentoo platform? not me, but I use the gpl version for commercial scopes > > Several mysql dependencies such as php w

[gentoo-dev] mysql commercial

2006-01-03 Thread Steve Rodgers
Hi does anyone have any experience of deploying mysql commercial build into a gentoo platform? Several mysql dependencies such as php will need to have the ebuild slot there so I guess it's up to me to maintain an overlay equivalent that provides the same as the portage ebuild? Does this exist