MySQL GUI Tools for 5.0 Release 12 available for download - MySQL Workbench Status Update

[Michael G. Zinner]

Dear MySQL users,

'MySQL GUI Tools for 5.0' is a collection of GUI tools for the MySQL 5.0 
Server. It consists of the following products

MySQL Administrator 1.2.12 GA
MySQL Query Browser 1.2.12 GA
MySQL Migration Toolkit 1.1.12 GA

and offers a complete set of graphical tools to configure, manage and 
work with the MySQL Server.


GUI Tools download page
   http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/gui-tools/5.0.html

More information at:

   MySQL Administrator
   http://www.mysql.com/products/tools/administrator/

   MySQL Query Browser
   http://www.mysql.com/products/tools/query-browser/

   MySQL Migration Toolkit
   http://www.mysql.com/products/tools/migration-toolkit/


MySQL Workbench Status Update

The MySQL GUI team is currently working full steam ahead on the much 
anticipated MySQL Workbench project. Development is on schedule and the 
first Beta is to be expected in Q3.

The application's core - the GRT Environment allowing for full 
scriptability and extendability via plugins - has been advanced to 
version 3. It now features a C++ module loader together with C++ header 
generation. This makes it possible for us to convert all application 
logic from the old C and Lua code to type safe C++ modules. This will 
greatly improve stability and maintainability. Further, the thread 
handling and event system has been shifted from the UI to the library 
code using glib and sigc++.

In contrast to the current tools we now draw a much cleaner line between 
the back-end and front-end implementation. To make this work with 
managed .Net/C# UI code on Windows we have to wrap the C++ back-end 
libraries with C++.net wrapper classes. This turned out to be much more 
straight forward than expected (a step that is not required on Linux).

The rewrite of the OpenGL canvas using the Cairo graphics library has 
been almost completed and gives promising results on OS X and Linux. We 
are currently working to get the Glitz compositing library working well 
on Windows - thanks go to the Mozilla team for their major work in this 
respect.

We are also making good progress with reusing the SQL grammar from the 
server for the reverse engineering process. This will guarantee a much 
improved handling of the SQL syntax throughout the tool.

The new Subversion source repositories will be published together with 
the very first Beta in Q3 and we are hoping to receive more patches from 
the community than before. These are now easier to write because of our 
switch to standard tools on Windows and our move to cleaner C++ code in 
general.

The same is true for plugins which should be written preferably in Lua 
and C++. We will also try to update the Python support and get it back 
into the Workbench later this year, as requested by members of the 
community, including Google and others.


Let me repeat that those who are anxiously awaiting the final release of 
the MySQL Workbench will not be disappointed and that the tool will be a 
  major step in Open Source database application development.

Mike
-- 
Michael Zinner, GUI Developer
MySQL AB, www.mysql.com

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