Re: MySQL with Cocoa
Re: MySQL with Cocoa
- Subject: Re: MySQL with Cocoa
- From: Chris Williams <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 17:09:26 -0700
- Thread-topic: MySQL with Cocoa
I would hope that anyone who is assuming the end user of their application
has access to MySQL has already considered the many issues, including, but
not limited to:
a) how that end user installs or gets access to the server
b) what permissions, server access instructions, etc., that the end user
needs
c) what kind of hand-holding and ever-so-helpful error messages they will
need when the installation and/or access fails
d) how to create the necessary database/tables/indices on installation
e) how to upgrade those tables, fields, indices, etc. when they inevitably
change in the next version
f) how to maintain/backup the database information for the end user
g) how to advise the end user on performance issues/settings specific to
their application
h) how to deal with the differences between 4.x and 5.x which have very
different capabilities
i) how to work with and/or recommend the appropriate database engine (ISAM,
InnoDB, etc.) that the various versions/installations have access to
j) oh, and gee, yes, the licensing implications of using MySQL or any other
libraries
In short, I would think that, if you are really headed down the road of a
commercial application that assumes MySQL (or any other specific DB
implementation) you have a whole lot of things to consider well beyond the
licensing...
My question was essentially: what parts of the licensing do you find so
onerous? That was answered, the money.
My point: the money¹s the easy part...
On 9/22/07 4:55 PM, "I. Savant" <email@hidden> wrote:
> ... which are easy enough to find for yourself on the vendor's
> site. Essentially, it's not free if you're going to be distributing
> your app. For a shareware developer and the average shareware app, the
> price is prohibitive (read "astronomical"). If you plan to distribute
> this application for less than a few hundred dollars a license,
> consider PostgreSQL or SQLite.
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