From c3256336de26feda8ad6c7e51b039249e147a30f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ivan Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 15:14:21 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] attempt to avoid people installing and asking for help with MySQL despite the VERY FUCKING CLEAR instructions that it isn't supported. --- httemplate/docs/install.html | 6 +++--- httemplate/docs/mysql.html | 13 +++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) create mode 100644 httemplate/docs/mysql.html diff --git a/httemplate/docs/install.html b/httemplate/docs/install.html index 4870c7db7..5c13ac10d 100644 --- a/httemplate/docs/install.html +++ b/httemplate/docs/install.html @@ -13,10 +13,9 @@ Before installing, you need:

A transactional database engine supported by Perl's DBI.

PostgreSQL (v7 or higher) is recommended. -
MySQL does not work at this time. - The following information is provided for developers who wish to contribute MySQL support: See ticket #300 in the bug-tracking system. +
MySQL is NOT supported at this time. If you are a developer who wishes to contribute MySQL support, see the MySQL notes. - MySQL's default MyISAM and ISAM table types are not supported. If you really want to use MySQL, you need to use one of the new transaction-safe table types such as BDB, and set it as the default table type using the --default-table-type=BDB mysqld command-line option or by setting default-table-type=BDB in the my.cnf option file. +

Perl modules (CPAN will query, download and build perl modules automatically)

Time-Duration
HTML-Widgets-SelectLayers
Storable +
Apache::DBI (optional but recommended for better webinterface performance)

Install the Freeside distribution: diff --git a/httemplate/docs/mysql.html b/httemplate/docs/mysql.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..11af518e1 --- /dev/null +++ b/httemplate/docs/mysql.html @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ + + MySQL notes + + +

MySQL notes

+MySQL is NOT supported at this time. +The following information is provided for developers who wish to contribute MySQL support. Note that ALL of the items listed below need to be resolved to support MySQL. +
+
See ticket #300 in the bug-tracking system. +
MySQL's default My +ISAM and ISAM table types are not supported. You need to use one of the new transaction-safe table types such as BDB, and set it as the default table type using the --default-table-type=BDB mysqld command-line option or by setting default-table-type=BDB in the my.cnf option file. +
+ -- 2.11.0