Re: Problem installing 4.006 under cygwin - "Cannot find the file 'mysql_config'!"

David Vergin wrote:

> on 4/8/2008 3:09 PM Patrick Galbraith said the following:
> > ...I'd even be glad to give CPAN commit status to
> > anyone wanting to contribute. The windows issues are hard
> > nuts to crack ;)
>
> I'd be happy to receive a commit bit and help with the docs regarding 
> DBD::mysql on Cygwin. The first thing I'd do is make the comments in 
> DBD/mysql.pm and README point to INSTALL so that there is a single 
> point of guidance regarding Cygwin installs.
>
> Do changes pass through you? 

It depends I suppose. I have a bit of faith in what people want to do. 
You obviously want to improve this part of the documentation, so that's 
a good thing.


> And if not, how do we assure that a potential collaborator (i.e. me) 
> posts changes that are in harmony with the intentions of the primary 
> maintainer (viz: you).

To do more releases, and more hands/eys makes that more possible. 
Windows support is something I'd like to improve.

>
> This would probably mean that I'd need to re-up for the Cygwin list 
> and find out who is handling the Perl packages at that end. I have no 
> idea why they down-graded Perl from 5.10 and when they are likely to 
> come back with 5.10 again. This could be an issue and anyone doing 
> docs for the community ought to be on top of the whole picture.
>
> Maybe we could convince the Cygwin folks to include DBD::mysql in 
> their setup offerings as they do with some of the other tricky packages.

That'd be great.

feel free to send me in another email your cpan id.

Thanks!

Patrick

>
> Regards,
> David Vergin
>
>


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