Nur als kleine Erinnerung: bis Sonntag, 26. Dezember können noch Vortragsvorschläge für den "MySQL & Friends" Developer Room auf der FOSDEM in Brüssel abgeben werden. Die FOSDEM-Veranstalter stellen uns für diesen Zweck am Samstag, den 5. Februar von 13:00-17:00 den Raum H.2213 (100 Plätze) zur Verfügung. Wir haben schon eine Reihe interessanter Vorträge erhalten, würden uns aber noch auf weitere Zusendungen freuen! Jeder Vorschlag rund um das Thema MySQL ist willkommen. Pro Vortrag planen wir 20 Minuten Gesprächszeit plus 5 Minuten Diskussion ein, so daß wir insgesamt 12 Vorträge halten können.
Wir freuen uns über weitere Themenvorschläge oder auch Hinweise auf interessante Referenten, die wir noch ansprechen könnten! Vielen Dank.
There has been a lot of buzz about the MySQL
5.5 GA release and its new
features and other user-visible improvements. In this blog post,
I'd like to touch on a less noticeable, but still important change.
CMake has already been used to
build the MySQL Server on Windows for a long time, while the GNU
autotools were used on all other platforms. Since MySQL 5.5, all
builds on all platforms are now performed using the same tool chain.
With the latest release of MySQL 5.5, we've made an important step to
clean up and simplify the MySQL build system: the support for
autoconf/automake has now been removed completely. We've been
performing the release builds of MySQL 5.5 using CMake exclusively
for quite some time already. It became obvious that maintaining two
separate build systems simply had become too much of a burden for our
engineers, especially since the autotools-based builds were no longer
exhaustively tested. This change was outlined in WorkLog#5665
- Removal of the autotools-based build system. We've made this
step in close
cooperation with our community of packagers (e.g. the maintainers
of MySQL packages on the various Linux distributions).
By moving to CMake, we are giving our developers one common build
mechanism for all platforms and there is a lot of new useful
functionality such as out-of-source builds or a GUI for configuring
the build options. And they can now build MySQL in the very same way
that we do it for our own binaries! I've covered the advantages in my
previous blog post about Building
MySQL Server with CMake on Linux/Unix
already. We've also created a general article about CMake
and MySQL as well as an
Autotools
to CMake Transition Guide on the MySQL Forge Wiki. The
description of the source build process in the reference
manual has also been updated to reflect this change.
A big “thank you” should to go to Vladislav Vaintroub
and Davi Arnaut for implementing and pushing the transition to CMake
forward, and to Paul DuBois for creating and improving the
documentation! Wearing my former build and release engineer hat, I am
very happy about this change.
Other CMake-related articles that are worth reading:
Just as a friendly reminder about what I wrote a month ago: we've already received a number of great talk submissions for the MySQL & Friends Developer Room at FOSDEM 2011, thanks to everyone who contributed so far! However, we still are looking for some more!
You can submit your proposal via this form. The deadline for turning in your talk is Sunday, 26th of December, 2010.
Just to recapitulate, the DevRoom (H.2213) will be available to us on Saturday 5th 2011, from 13:00 till 19:00. Each session will last 20 minutes plus 5 minutes of Q&A. See this year's schedule for inspiration — I think we had a great lineup of talks that addressed a good mixture of MySQL-related topics. I am looking forward to your ideas and suggestions! Thanks in advance for your support.
As part of the upcoming Oracle OpenWorld/Java One in São Paulo, Brazil next week (which will also include MySQL-related sessions), there will be a free MySQL Community event, which will take place on December 8th, from 13:00-18:00.
Here's the (translated and abbreviated) description from the events page:
Oracle invites you to attend the MySQL Community Forum! Don't miss an evening filled with technical sessions led by engineers and leaders of the MySQL open source community. You will have the opportunity to learn more about MySQL, Glassfish and what innovations to expect from MySQL 5.5.
This free forum is open for members of the MySQL and Open Source community interested in knowing how small and large companies use MySQL and how they take advantage of our solutions.
Choose from five highly technical sessions with well-known speakers, covering topics such as: MySQL Cluster, High Availability, Replication Tools, MySQL and GlassFish. See how Ricardo Eletro.com are using MySQL to achieve high levels of performance. Meet old friends and share your technical questions with the engineers of MySQL and Open Source community leaders. See how the GlassFish, NetBeans and MySQL work in perfect harmony. See what's new in the world of MySQL.
Sounds like a fun event to be at — if you're a MySQL user/enthusiast and you happen to be in the area, don't miss this! You can register for the event via phone or email to the contact information given on the page cited above.
