Please do not assume Perl is always installed on all platforms. In particular not on Windows! Just as it is probably a bad idea to assume that Windows DOS commands work on Linux! Come on now!
Why am I making a fuzz you ask, do I have a problem with you writing stuff in Perl (personally, I don't even like Perl, but that's another issue)? Nope. But somewhat modern software really should not assume that you have Perl, or DOS, or some other arcane, not terribly standardized piece of software around for a server to do it's job. And MySQL still have a way to go to be reasonably good on Windows. Downloading the lastest RC, 5.5.7, MySQLhas managed to screw up at least two things, at least, in my mind. But maybe that's just me:
All in all: Please remove Perl depenent client programs from the MySQL distribution! And mysqld_multi seems rather superflous on Windows in general, if you ask me (not that it even works, check bug #58553).
/Karlsson
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Why am I making a fuzz you ask, do I have a problem with you writing stuff in Perl (personally, I don't even like Perl, but that's another issue)? Nope. But somewhat modern software really should not assume that you have Perl, or DOS, or some other arcane, not terribly standardized piece of software around for a server to do it's job. And MySQL still have a way to go to be reasonably good on Windows. Downloading the lastest RC, 5.5.7, MySQLhas managed to screw up at least two things, at least, in my mind. But maybe that's just me:
- The optimzied. non debug libraries, are now in /lib under the distribution, not in /lib/opt where they used to be. I see no good reason for this, to be honest (place the libraries where you want, of course, but once a release is out, don't move them around at random in upcoming releases). This has been reported as bug #58532
- To make it realhard for us in the community to test this release Candidate version of MySQL, to iron out the bugs, MySQL decided not to include dynamic debug client libraries, only the static ones. Why this makes things difficult, you have to do some development on Windows to userstand. For a bunch of reasons (not necessarily good reasons, but if you are Microsoft, you are allowed to do whatever you choose, no reason needed, except that maybe it's the 7th hour on the 7th month and it's afull moon coming up or something), Micosoft compiles stuff so that a static library depends on stuff included by the compiler itself. So if the compiler version changes, the library will not work properly anymore. In short, you need to build your applications with the same version of Visual Studio as the MySQL Client library was built with. Yikes! (For more Yikes, see MySQL bug #58531)
All in all: Please remove Perl depenent client programs from the MySQL distribution! And mysqld_multi seems rather superflous on Windows in general, if you ask me (not that it even works, check bug #58553).
/Karlsson
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