John Hawkinson Wrote:
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> Wow. Not possible to build from source. That is
> pretty grim :(
Well, it's just a matter of a few days. We were simply faster than the C++ connector team.
> My understanding was that MySQL Workbench under
> the GPL, so the source was a required component.
> Is there some reason this is not a GPL violation?
Not sure what you are aiming at. The source code of WB is available. We are not required to publish source code of 3rd party libs WB links to.
>
> While you can't publish a package of all the 3rd
> party libs, you can certainly publish a complete
> list of them. INSTALL tries, but it appears to be
> woefully out of date, with incorrect information
> about 32-bit/64-bit builds and various
> dependencies listed only under the Linux section
> that are necessary for OS X as well.
Yes, true. Unfortunately, such documentation tends to be always out of date. We will update the instructions.
> Also, you could publish dependencies/package lists
> for the various OS X package management 3rd party
> tools (homebrew, macports, etc.). That would make
> it a lot easier.
This is what I meant in my first response. We have a blog post for Windows and need another one for OSX.
> Anyhow, when I get it building
> I'll be happy to contribute some patches toward
> that.
Ok, very good. Pleaes use our Github repo for that:
https://github.com/mysql/mysql-workbench.
Mike
Mike Lischke, MySQL Developer Tools
Oracle Corporation
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