Re: porting to Darwin/Mac OS X

[<sinisa]

Chris Meyer writes:
 > Hi Monty,
 > 
 > OK - I'm back from my vacation to Cape Cod :)
 > 
 > Thanks for applying this patch. There was another person from Apple 
 > that posted a few other goodies for Mac OS X. Did you happen to see 
 > those patches also? They fix a few more items that showed up in 
 > 3.23.25-beta (mine were for 3.23.24-beta). I can repost his message 
 > if you missed it.
 > 
 > I want to reiterate one point he made:
 > 
 >      1. 'rhapsody' (Mac OS X Server; cthreads only) and
 >      2. 'darwin' (Mac OS X; cthreads AND pthreads)
 > 
 > are significantly different... AND the 'standard binary' that is on 
 > http://www.mysql.com/downloads/mysql-3.23.html is actually for 
 > 'rhapsody' (Mac OS X Server). It should probably be re-labeled and 
 > another one for 'darwin' (Mac OS X) should be posted.
 > 
 > I'll be happy to make sure everything is in order and coordinate with 
 > the person from Apple -- but where/when are the patches you made 
 > available? I couldn't find a CVS server for mysql anywhere on the web 
 > pages. Is there one and if so, can you give me the URL for setup 
 > info? If not, what other way do I have to download/verify the patches?
 > 
 > Also, of one other minor note: the pthreads deficiencies in Darwin 
 > are now being tracked in the Darwin bug-list...
 > 
 > Thanks,
 > Chris
 > 


Hi!

Yes, a message from the Apple programmer was well received and most of 
the stuff he made will find it's way in future releases of MySQL.

Thank you also for the above elaboration on the differences between
Rhapsody and Darwin. 

I only wish I could afford a Cube, alas .....

Regards,

Sinisa

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