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Contributors to the MySQL distribution are listed below, in
somewhat random order:
- Michael (Monty) Widenius
-
Has written the following parts of MySQL:
-
All the main code in
mysqld
.
-
New functions for the string library.
-
Most of the
mysys
library.
-
The
ISAM
and MyISAM
libraries (B-tree index file
handlers with index compression and different record formats).
-
The
heap
library. A memory table system with our superior full dynamic
hashing. In use since 1981 and published around 1984.
-
The
replace
program (look into it, it's COOL!).
-
MyODBC, the ODBC driver for Windows95.
-
Fixing bugs in MIT-pthreads to get it to work for MySQL. And
also Unireg, a curses-based application tool with many utilities.
-
Porting of
mSQL
tools like msqlperl
, DBD
/DBI
and
DB2mysql
.
-
Most parts of crash-me and the MySQL benchmarks.
- David Axmark
-
-
Coordinator and main writer for the Reference Manual, including
enhancements to
texi2html
. Also automatic website updating from
this manual.
-
Autoconf, Automake and
libtool
support.
-
The licensing stuff.
-
Parts of all the text files. (Nowadays only the `README' is
left. The rest ended up in the manual.)
-
Our Mail master.
-
Lots of testing of new features.
-
Our in-house ``free'' software lawyer.
-
Mailing list maintainer (who never has the time to do it right...)
-
Our original portability code (more than 10 years old now). Nowadays
only some parts of
mysys
are left.
-
Someone for Monty to call in the middle of the night when he just got
that new feature to work. :-)
- Paul DuBois
-
Help with making the Reference Manual correct and understandable. That
includes rewriting Monty's and David's attempts at English into English
as other people know it.
- Gianmassimo Vigazzola qwerg@mbox.vol.it or qwerg@tin.it
-
The initial port to Win32/NT.
- Kim Aldale
-
Helped to rewrite Monty's and David's early attempts at English into
English.
- Allan Larsson (The BOSS at TcX)
-
For all the time he has allowed Monty to spend on this ``maybe useful''
tool (MySQL). Dedicated user (and bug finder) of Unireg & MySQL.
- Per Eric Olsson
-
For more or less constructive criticism and real testing of the dynamic
record format.
- Irena Pancirov irena@mail.yacc.it
-
Win32 port with Borland compiler.
mysqlshutdown.exe
and
mysqlwatch.exe
- David J. Hughes
-
For the effort to make a shareware SQL database. We at TcX started with
mSQL
, but found that it couldn't satisfy our purposes so instead we
wrote a SQL interface to our application builder Unireg. mysqladmin
and mysql
are programs that were largely influenced by their
mSQL
counterparts. We have put a lot of effort into making the
MySQL syntax a superset of mSQL
. Many of the APIs ideas are
borrowed from mSQL
to make it easy to port free mSQL
programs
to MySQL. MySQL doesn't contain any code from mSQL
.
Two files in the distribution (`client/insert_test.c' and
`client/select_test.c') are based on the corresponding (non-copyrighted)
files in the mSQL
distribution, but are modified as examples showing
the changes necessary to convert code from mSQL
to MySQL.
(mSQL
is copyrighted David J. Hughes.)
- Fred Fish
-
For his excellent C debugging and trace library. Monty has made a number
of smaller improvements to the library (speed and additional options).
- Richard A. O'Keefe
-
For his public domain string library.
- Henry Spencer
-
For his regex library, used in
WHERE column REGEXP regexp
.
- Free Software Foundation
-
From whom we got an excellent compiler (
gcc
), the libc
library
(from which we have borrowed `strto.c' to get some code working in Linux)
and the readline
library (for the mysql
client).
- Free Software Foundation & The XEmacs development team
-
For a really great editor/environment used by almost everybody at TcX/detron.
- Igor Romanenko igor@frog.kiev.ua
-
mysqldump
(previously msqldump
, but ported and enhanced by
Monty).
- Tim Bunce, Alligator Descartes
-
For the
DBD
(Perl) interface.
- Andreas Koenig a.koenig@mind.de
-
For the Perl interface to MySQL.
- Eugene Chan eugene@acenet.com.sg
-
For porting PHP to MySQL.
- Michael J. Miller Jr. mke@terrapin.turbolift.com
-
For the first MySQL manual. And a lot of spelling/language
fixes for the FAQ (that turned into the MySQL manual a long
time ago).
- Giovanni Maruzzelli maruzz@matrice.it
-
For porting iODBC (Unix ODBC).
- Chris Provenzano
-
Portable user level pthreads. From the copyright: This product includes
software developed by Chris Provenzano, the University of California,
Berkeley, and contributors. We are currently using version 1_60_beta6
patched by Monty (see `mit-pthreads/Changes-mysql').
- Xavier Leroy Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr
-
The author of LinuxThreads (used by MySQL on Linux).
- Zarko Mocnik zarko.mocnik@dem.si
-
Sorting for Slovenian language and the `cset.tar.gz' module that makes
it easier to add other character sets.
- "TAMITO" tommy@valley.ne.jp
-
The
_MB
character set macros and the ujis and sjis character sets.
- Yves Carlier Yves.Carlier@rug.ac.be
-
mysqlaccess
, a program to show the access rights for a user.
- Rhys Jones rhys@wales.com (And GWE Technologies Limited)
-
For the JDBC, a module to extract data from MySQL with a Java
client.
- Dr Xiaokun Kelvin ZHU X.Zhu@brad.ac.uk
-
Further development of the JDBC driver and other MySQL-related
Java tools.
- James Cooper pixel@organic.com
-
For setting up a searchable mailing list archive at his site.
- Rick Mehalick Rick_Mehalick@i-o.com
-
For
xmysql
, a graphical X client for MySQL.
- Doug Sisk sisk@wix.com
-
For providing RPM packages of MySQL for RedHat Linux.
- Diemand Alexander V. axeld@vial.ethz.ch
-
For providing RPM packages of MySQL for RedHat Linux/Alpha.
- Antoni Pamies Olive toni@readysoft.es
-
For providing RPM versions of a lot of MySQL clients for Intel
and SPARC.
- Jay Bloodworth jay@pathways.sde.state.sc.us
-
For providing RPM versions for MySQL 3.21 versions.
- Jochen Wiedmann wiedmann@neckar-alb.de
-
For maintaining the Perl
DBD::mysql
module.
- Therrien Gilbert gilbert@ican.net, Jean-Marc Pouyot jmp@scalaire.fr
-
French error messages.
- Petr snajdr, snajdr@pvt.net
-
Czech error messages.
- Jaroslaw Lewandowski jotel@itnet.com.pl
-
Polish error messages.
- Miguel Angel Fernandez Roiz
-
Spanish error messages.
- Roy-Magne Mo rmo@www.hivolda.no
-
Norwegian error messages and testing of 3.21.#.
- Timur I. Bakeyev root@timur.tatarstan.ru
-
Russian error messages.
- brenno@dewinter.com && Filippo Grassilli phil@hyppo.com
-
Italian error messages.
- Dirk Munzinger dirk@trinity.saar.de
-
German error messages.
- Billik Stefan billik@sun.uniag.sk
-
Slovak error messages.
- David Sacerdote davids@secnet.com
-
Ideas for secure checking of DNS hostnames.
- Wei-Jou Chen jou@nematic.ieo.nctu.edu.tw
-
Some support for Chinese(BIG5) characters.
- Wei He hewei@mail.ied.ac.cn
-
A lot of functionality for the Chinese(GBK) character set.
- Zeev Suraski bourbon@netvision.net.il
-
FROM_UNIXTIME()
time formatting, ENCRYPT()
functions, and
bison
adviser.
Active mailing list member.
- Luuk de Boer luuk@wxs.nl
-
Ported (and extended) the benchmark suite to
DBI
/DBD
. Have
been of great help with crash-me
and running benchmarks. Some new
date functions. The mysql_setpermissions script.
- Jay Flaherty fty@utk.edu
-
Big parts of the Perl
DBI
/DBD
section in the manual.
- Paul Southworth pauls@etext.org, Ray Loyzaga yar@cs.su.oz.au
-
Proof-reading of the Reference Manual.
- Alexis Mikhailov root@medinf.chuvashia.su
-
User definable functions (UDFs);
CREATE FUNCTION
and
DROP FUNCTION
.
- Andreas F. Bobak bobak@relog.ch
-
The
AGGREGATE
extension to UDF functions.
- Ross Wakelin R.Wakelin@march.co.uk
-
Help to set up InstallShield for MySQL-Win32.
- Jethro Wright III jetman@li.net
-
The `libmysql.dll' library.
- James Pereria jpereira@iafrica.com
-
Mysqlmanager, a Win32 GUI tool for administrating MySQL.
- Curt Sampson cjs@portal.ca
-
Porting of MIT-pthreads to NetBSD/Alpha and NetBSD 1.3/i386.
- Sinisa Milivojevic sinisa@coresinc.com
-
Compression (with
zlib
) to the client/server protocol.
Perfect hashing for the lexical analyzer phase.
- Antony T. Curtis antony.curtis@olcs.net
-
Porting of MySQL to OS/2.
- Martin Ramsch m.ramsch@computer.org
-
Examples in the MySQL Tutorial.
- Tim Bunce
-
Author of mysqlhotcopy.
- Steve Harvey
-
For making
mysqlaccess
more secure.
Other contributors, bugfinders and testers: James H. Thompson, Maurizio
Menghini, Wojciech Tryc, Luca Berra, Zarko Mocnik, Wim Bonis, Elmar
Haneke, jehamby@lightside, psmith@BayNetworks.COM,
Mike Simons, Jaakko Hyv@"atti.
And lots of bug report/patches from the folks on the mailing list.
And a big tribute to those that help us answer questions on the
mysql@lists.mysql.com
mailing list:
- Daniel Koch dkoch@amcity.com
-
Irix setup.
- Luuk de Boer luuk@wxs.nl
-
Benchmark questions.
- Tim Sailer tps@users.buoy.com
-
DBD-mysql
questions.
- Boyd Lynn Gerber gerberb@zenez.com
-
SCO related questions.
- Richard Mehalick RM186061@shellus.com
-
xmysql
-releated questions and basic installation questions.
- Zeev Suraski bourbon@netvision.net.il
-
Apache module configuration questions (log & auth), PHP-related
questions, SQL syntax related questions and other general questions.
- Francesc Guasch frankie@citel.upc.es
-
General questions.
- Jonathan J Smith jsmith@wtp.net
-
Questions pertaining to OS-specifics with Linux, SQL syntax, and other
things that might be needing some work.
- David Sklar sklar@student.net
-
Using MySQL from PHP and Perl.
- Alistair MacDonald A.MacDonald@uel.ac.uk
-
Not yet specified, but is flexible and can handle Linux and maybe HP-UX.
Will try to get user to use
mysqlbug
.
- John Lyon jlyon@imag.net
-
Questions about installing MySQL on Linux systems, using either
`.rpm' files, or compiling from source.
- Lorvid Ltd. lorvid@WOLFENET.com
-
Simple billing/license/support/copyright issues.
- Patrick Sherrill patrick@coconet.com
-
ODBC and VisualC++ interface questions.
- Randy Harmon rjharmon@uptimecomputers.com
-
DBD
, Linux, some SQL syntax questions.
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