Re: looking for DBDesigner or MySql Workbench news
"Michael G. Zinner" <[email protected]>
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| Organization | MySQL AB |
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Carl, please find my comments inline. Carl Karsten wrote: > Is this the place to be for news on MySql Workbench (formerly DBDesigner)? Yes. > Here is what I have gathered so far: > > http://www.fabforce.net/forum says > > "We will continue to host the DBD4 download till the release of the > MySQL Workbench, its successor application that will be an official > MySQL product. Then this project will rest in peace." True. > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/String_functions.html says: > > "February 15, 2004 ... Originally called DB Designer, MySQL Workbench > was developed as a college project by Michael Zinner, who is now among > the newest MySQL employees. ... Set for release in May, MySQL Workbench > will be available under a GNU GPL; commercial pricing was not determined > at press time." We had to delay the development of the WB in respect to the MySQL Administrator & MySQL Query Browser, the new Windows server installer / config wizards, the Migration Toolkit and several other projects. But in February this year we started to work on the WB. > "Yesterday [Apr19,05] in the keynote at the MySQL Users Conference, > David Axmark showed a working copy of it and mentioned that it was > coming out "soon" (I think that's the word he used -- something similar > at least)." Actually, I had the honor of speaking at Monty and David's keynote myself. I showed off the MySQL Migration Toolkit and at the end of my demo I also launched a pre-alpha version of the Workbench. > I may have found MySQL Workbench > http://openlogging.org:8080/mikework./Mike-20041124132201-17344-9c0cbfac > not sure this is for public consumption. No, the Bitkeeper repository is not used anymore. The MySQL GUI team has switched to Subversion completely. Some basic facts about the WB: The MySQL Workbench builds on the UI of DBDesigner4 - I tried to make the design even more clear but in line with MA & QB. The WB will feature a high performance OpenGL canvas. Further it makes use of a new Runtime Environment (GRT) that is also powering the MySQL Migration Toolkit. With the GRT it is possible to write modules and plugins in C, Java, PHP, Lua (Mono, Python, Perl, more to follow). That makes the WB a very open and flexible system and we hope for a number of plugins written by the community. Like for all other MySQL GUI tools native versions will be available for Windows, Linux and OS X. The WB will be dual licensed GPL / Commercial. As a teaser, I have uploaded the About screen that shows the WB icon ;) http://www.fabforce.net/mysql/wb_about.html More to follow in the next weeks. Best regards from Vienna, Mike -- Michael Zinner, GUI Developer MySQL AB, www.mysql.com Office: +43 676 753 26 30 Are you MySQL certified? www.mysql.com/certification -- MySQL GUI Tools Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/gui-tools To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[email protected]