Re: [HACKERS] Remove MySQL Tools from Source?

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
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Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Remove MySQL Tools from Source?
Date: 2004-04-17 17:03:47
Message-ID: 40816373.2010507@dunslane.net
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Jan Wieck wrote:

> Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
>
>>> ... on projects.postgresql.org, or similar. They really aren't
>>> doing any good in /contrib.
>>>
>>> I've already set up a category "conversion tools" on pgFoundry, and
>>> my idea was one project per target system.
>>
>>
>>
>> I reckon that by far the best way to do a mysql2pgsql converter is to
>> just modify mysqldump C source code to output in postgresql format!
>
>
>
> ... and contribute it to MySQL :-)
>

But you would have to assign the copyright to them ....

If someone is going to make money from my code, I prefer it to be me, or
at least that everyone has a chance to do so rather than just one company.

cheers

andrew

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