Status of mysqle

[Mark Kretschmann]

On 8/30/08, Leo Franchi <lfranchi at kde.org> wrote:
> On Aug 30, 2008, at 1:31 PM, Jeff Mitchell wrote:
>
>  > On Saturday 30 August 2008 00:36:56 Edward Hades wrote:
>  >> Hey, guys, sorry for being MIA for so long.
>  >>
>  >> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Leo Franchi <lfranchi at kde.org>
>  >> wrote:
>  >>> This is also still all speculation, i think since we don't know how
>  >>> Edward is actually progressing (or if he is at all).
>  >>>
>  >>> So it seems to me we need to actually learn where we are, how far we
>  >>> are from getting a working mysql-e, and if it is worth us focusing
>  >>> our
>  >>> time on that to get it ready for 2.0.
>  >>
>  >> I've got mysqle up and running for amarok pretty fine without any
>  >> major issues. I've even asked everyone who cares to test if it works
>  >> for them, but no one responded.
>  >>
>  >> The only thing that holds us so far is packaging issue. As you saw
>  >> some 12 days ago Lenz recommended me to create a mysql bugreport and
>  >> poke him until it's resolved. I've been trying to adapt mysql's cmake
>  >> files to include the whole stuff in amarok tree, but so far with no
>  >> luck.
>  >
>  > I know I didn't test it because I was under the impression it was
>  > broken
>  > because of the packaging issues  :-)
>
>
> Just a heads up: i followed those instructions and it works really
>  well here.
>
>  And it is _much_ faster. Noticeably so.

That's pretty damn awesome :)

Much as I love the concept of SQLite, we've always had technical
issues with it, and I think it would be great if we could switch to
MySQLe before 2.0.

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Mark Kretschmann
Amarok Developer
www.kde.org - amarok.kde.org