Re: [cowiki-dev] Releasing coWiki with the "working" parser

Hakan Kuecuekyilmaz wrote:

> Quoting Paul Hanchett <[email protected]>:
>
>> Daniel T. Gorski wrote:
>>
>>> On 13 Jul 08:01, Paul Hanchett wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Apparently Daniel is checking to see if the database supports 
>>>> InnoDB, and if it doesn't the install fails and you can't get any 
>>>> further.  :-(
>>>
>>>
>>> Using a non-transactional persistence engine like MyISAM with coWiki 
>>> (or
>>> better any software) is negligent, thats all.
>>>
>>> The installer process fails (or better: stops with a qualified 
>>> message) to
>>> avoid any "wrong security feeling" for the user.
>>>
>>> We decided to support MySQL >= 4.0 which supports InnoDB without 
>>> problems
>>> and I don't really see where the problems are now. Maybe it would be 
>>> better
>>> to concentrate on other important issues. This one is solved IMO.
>>>
>> 4.0 does not universally support InnoDB Daniel.  Nor does 4.1.  The
>> InnoDB engine has to be explicitly turned on and it may not be in all
>> hosting situations.  I am really quite disappointed in this.
>
>
> From the mysql.com website:
>
> 4.1: 'The Standard binaries are recommended for most users, and 
> includes the
> InnoDB storage engine.'
>
> 4.0: 'The Standard binaries are recommended for most users, and 
> includes the
> InnoDB storage engine.'
>
> One has to turn InnoDB support explicitely off, not on!
>
> [...]
>
> Bye, Hakan

That may be what is *said* but it's not how it worked, on my machine at 
least!  :-(

Actually, I think that PHP5 is much the bigger problem as the prebuilt 
binaries don't seem to support MySQL or something and building it 
doesn't work.  Not for me, anyway.