Well, since I am going on holiday, I thought I’d better point people at a
not so crashy mysqlcc.
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I downloaded the mysqlcc source code, and thought I’d have a go at building
it with trolltech’s
Qt-3.2.0 (Qt/Mac Free.
Even though the page says the latest edition is 3.1.2, 3.2.0 is available for download.
Qt takes forever and a day to build on my powerbook g4, it also takes forever to build something which uses it, so most of the days was spent washing my car while the things compiled.
I did eventually get mysqlcc built, and it seems to work, but it crashes a lot while running and every time it exits. I think the exit crash has to do with the HotKey code, I’ll look at disabling that alltogether and see what happens.
If you want to have a look, you can download a 4.1Mb binary that I built today.
MD5 for the binary is: aec05d25efce0c05656a9c7a5c900212
The above link not working? Download mysqlcc/mac from this site
It was built with the 0.9.2 source release of mysqlcc and Qt/Mac Free 3.2.0.
My name is O’Gorman, that is an apostrophe and a capital G. It is not Ogorman, nor is my middle initial O.
Tried to buy travel insurance today, it took 45 minutes before we gave up, the computer system the agent was using wouldn’t accept the apostrophe in my name. This is in Japan, they happily accept names requiring 2 byte fonts, but ‘ is unacceptable? I must admit that I’ve had this problem before, trying to give money to unicef Japan, it would not accept my name, but gave a useless error, because the apostrophe is used to delimit sql queries and the web designer never took into account that someone’s name may contain one.
It isn’t hard to do, it just requires a little thought on the part of the application designer, accept “odd” chars in names.
While I’m ranting, I may as well continue:
1) Do not ask for a zip/postal code and then validate the input against some US database, informing me uselessly that my (quite valid japanese code) is wrong.
2) If your company accepts international orders, use the same form for everyone, don’t make me go to some “special” page.
3) If you don’t accept international orders, tell me so before I get to the checkout page.
I’d better stop now, or I’ll be up half the night on this rant.
| What a boring weekend! Spent the entire time building and rebuilding sodipodi to get it working with Apple’s x11 and xfree86. There were serious problems with libXft and fonts, had to hack the hell out of configure to get it working on Apple’s x11 (beta 3) because it does not have pkg-config files for xft, so configure wasn’t finding it, also had to change code which only allowed fonts with certain extensions to load. I know this sounds like something easy, and it was, but it took hours to figure out what the hell was going wrong, yet more hours to install apple’s x11 and another fink and yet more hours to build multiple times against both x11′s. What a pita. So, because I spent so long messing with it, and because this site is seriously lacking in graphics, here is a screenie of sodipidi-0.32 |
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Well, I think the whole virtual package thing I committed yesterday has now been fixed
so that it should work regardless of what the user decides to do with their fink install.
I must thank Ben Hines for pointing out possible problems with my first commit. I hope I have fixed things to everyones satisfaction.