Posted by Gerry Narvaja on Jun 17, 2009
I just filed a very annoying bug when trying to compile with plugin engines using the 5.1.xx source tarball.
Description
I am trying to test SphinxSE as a plugin instead of getting it statically linked and came across an annoying bug. When using the configure --with-plugins option only once, the engine is statically linked. When using it twice, the first engine is created as a plugin, and the 2nd one is linked statically. Here are a couple of examples:
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Posted by Sheeri Cabral on Oct 1, 2008
A while ago, MySQL developed a Community Contribution Agreement for community contributions to the MySQL source code. While browsing the MySQL Forge Wiki I came across:
http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/Community_Contributions
This page shows that the Community Contribution Agreement has changed — it is no longer the document MySQL AB created. It is now Sun Microsystem’s standard Sun Contributor Agreement, which CEO MÃ¥rten Mickos recently explained to me was “more accepted than the agreement MySQL had come up with.”
I am happy to see some of the great Sun practices trickle down to replace some issues that MySQL did not handle smoothly. All in all, I agree with MÃ¥rten Mickos and think the Sun Contributor Agreement is much better….
….but what do you think?
