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* Porting::                     Comments on porting to other systems

* Environment variables::       MySQL environment variables

* Regexp::                      Description of MySQL regular expression syntax

* Unireg::                      What is Unireg?

* GPL license::                 GNU General Public License

* LGPL license::                GNU Library General Public License

* Placeholder::                 Pieces of the manual in transit

concern many people.  This section has been put together from information 

gathered from the mailing list (which is very active in reporting bugs).

At TcX, MySQL has worked without any problems in our projects since

mid-1996.  When MySQL was released to a wider public, we noticed that

there were some pieces of ``untested code'' that were quickly found by the

new users who made queries in a manner different than our own.  Each new

release has had fewer portability problems than the previous one (even though

each has had many new features).

At TcX, the predecessor of MySQL AB, MySQL has worked without any problems in

projects since mid-1996. Original code stems back from the early 80s,

providing a table code base, and the ISAM table format remains backwards

compatible.  When MySQL was released to a wider public, we noticed that there

were some pieces of ``untested code'' that were quickly found by the new users

who made queries in a manner different than our own.  Each new release has had

fewer portability problems than the previous one (even though each has had

many new features).

Each release of MySQL has been usable, and there have been problems

only when users start to use code from the ``gray zones.''  Naturally, outside

@node Regexp, Unireg, Environment variables, Top

@node Regexp, GPL license, Environment variables, Top

@appendix Description of MySQL regular expression syntax

@cindex regex

@node Unireg, GPL license, Regexp, Top

@appendix What is Unireg?

@cindex Unireg, described

@cindex interface builder

Unireg is our tty interface builder, but it uses a low-level connection

to our ISAM (which is used by MySQL) and because of this it is

very quick. It has existed since 1979 (on Unix in C since ~1986).

Unireg has the following components:

@itemize @bullet

@item

One table viewer with updates/browsing.

@item

Multi table viewer (with one scrolling region).

@item

Table creator. (With lots of column tags you can't create with MySQL)

This is WYSIWYG (for a tty). You design a screen and Unireg prompts for

the column specification.

@item

Report generator.

@item

A lot of utilities (quick import/export of tables to/from text files,

analysis of table contents...).

@item

Powerful multi-table updates (which we use a lot) with a BASIC-like

language with LOTS of functions.

@item

Dynamic languages (at present in Swedish and Finnish). If somebody wants

an English version there are a few files that would have to be translated.

@item

The ability to run updates interactively or in a batch.

@item

Emacs-like key definitions with keyboard macros.

@item

All this in a binary of 800K.

@item

The @code{convform} utility. Converts @file{.frm} and text files between

different character sets.

@item

The @code{myisampack} utility. Packs an ISAM table (makes it 50-80%

smaller). The table can be read by MySQL like an ordinary

table. Only one record has to be decompressed per access. Cannot handle

@code{BLOB} or @code{TEXT} columns or updates (yet).

@end itemize

We update most of our production databases with the Unireg interface and

serve web pages through MySQL (and in some extreme cases the Unireg

report generator).

Unireg takes about 3M of disk space and works on at least the following

platforms: SunOS 4.x, Solaris, Linux, HP-UX, ICL Unix, DNIX, SCO and

MS-DOS.

Unireg is currently only available in Swedish and Finnish.

The price tag for Unireg is 10,000 Swedish kr (about $1500 US), but this

includes support. Unireg is distributed as a binary. (But all the ISAM

sources can be found in MySQL.) Usually we compile the binary for the

customer at their site.

All new development is concentrated to MySQL.

@page

@c This node name is special

@node GPL license, LGPL license, Unireg, Top

@node GPL license, LGPL license, Regexp, Top

@appendix GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE

@cindex GPL, General Public License