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A reasonable position to take. But if it's the case at MySQL, Windows should not be a supported platform and they shouldn't ship binaries.
by bensummers 17y ago
A reasonable position to take. But if it's the case at MySQL, Windows should not be a supported platform and they shouldn't ship binaries.
- mechanical_fish 17y agoPlease. Half the Windows developers in the world would be out of business if held to this standard. Almost certainly including Microsoft. MySQL has bugs, but the basic functionality works on Windows. Or so I assume, considering that those bugs don't seem to have prevented tens of thousands of PHP developers from making good use of MySQL when developing their software. (I wouldn't know, of course -- I use Mac OS and Linux.) I'm sure the bugs are annoying, though. Maybe the people who care about them should get out the GPL source code and fix them. Or maybe they should pay someone who knows how to fix them. Or maybe they should do what just about everybody else seems to do -- calculate the price of options one and two, compare them to the cost of running Linux, and deploy on Linux. Or they can bang on the table and cry in the hopes that someone will fix their problems for free. Good luck with that.
- bensummers 17y agoI'm not saying that it should be without bugs! I assume Windows developers and Microsoft care about supporting Windows, and develop on the platform. MySQL developers don't sound as if they do anything on Windows. Given that MySQL put the Windows download link first in their list of downloadable binaries, you would have thought that it was a platform they might use for a fair percentage of their development work.