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MySQL Uses Microsoft's Open Source Software
EqualSlash writes "The Windows installer for the upcoming MySQL 4.1 release will be built using Microsoft's first ever open source project - Windows Installer XML toolset(Wix). According to an InternetNews report, they are using Wix to convert the MSI file designed using InstallShield into XML to achieve greater control over the installer. Of course, they are simply using it because it's Open Source (CPL license) and in good faith. Earlier this year, when Microsoft surprised everybody by releasing the Wix project under an open source license, some were cautious about using it, as the specific XML schema it uses might be patented just like the Office xml schema. Whatever.. Rob Mensching, Wix's lead developer, is very happy about MySQL choosing to use Wix for their installer."
I've been trying to get my feet wet with this WiX stuff, but really the documentation is extremely lacking.
it's open source, duh!
... Microsoft will add security and a lot of features to MS SQL Server replacing it by MySQL.
I've been trying to get my feet wet with this WiX stuff, but really the documentation is extremely lacking.
*ROTFL*[1]
[1] The sound of x+1 Germans falling off their chairs and bouncing around.
Of course it runs NetBSD. BTC: 1NT7QvbetmANwaMzhpVL6
...is to jerk off, or wank, as the Brits would say. My recommendation: don't wix too much, it gives you blisters ;-)
Yet Microsoft includes GNU/GPL utilities incorporated within their Services For Unix product that has been both sold and given away over the years. With impunity.
By incorporated, I mean using the source as part of a product, not bundling existing programs and distributing them.
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"
is just an awesome name for native German speakers like me! It means something like jerking off...Haha! I guess they'll have to rename it as soon as it becomes more popular..