From: Rich Prohaska Date: November 9 2012 6:40pm Subject: wondering about mysql_install_db in mysql-5.6.8-rc List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/internals/38625 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hello, I noticed that mysql_install_db is a perl script in mysql-5.6.8-rc on linux. In 5.6.7-rc, it was a shell script. Both the shell and perl variants of this script are included in the source. Why was this change made? Thanks Rich Prohaska