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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.
- Gianmassimo Vigazzola [email protected] or [email protected]
- The initial port to Win32/NT.
- Kim Aldale
- Rewriting Monty's and David's 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 [email protected]
- Win32 port with Borland compiler.
- 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 [email protected]
mysqldump (previously msqldump, but ported and enhanced by
Monty). - Tim Bunce, Alligator Descartes
- For the
DBD (Perl) interface.
- Andreas Koenig [email protected]
- For the Perl interface to MySQL.
- Eugene Chan [email protected]
- For porting PHP to MySQL.
- Michael J. Miller Jr. [email protected]
- 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 [email protected]
- 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 [email protected]
- The author of LinuxThreads (used by MySQL on Linux).
- Zarko Mocnik [email protected]
- Sorting for Slovenian language and the `cset.tar.gz' module that makes it
easier to add other character sets.
- "TAMITO" [email protected]
- The
_MB character set macros and the ujis and sjis character sets.
- Yves Carlier [email protected]
mysqlaccess, a program to show the access rights for a user. - Rhys Jones [email protected] (And GWE Technologies
Limited)
- For the JDBC, a module to extract data from MySQL with a Java client.
- Dr Xiaokun Kelvin ZHU [email protected]
- Further development of the JDBC driver and other MySQL-related Java
tools.
- James Cooper [email protected]
- For setting up a searchable mailing list archive at his site.
- Rick Mehalick [email protected]
- For
xmysql, a graphical X client for MySQL.
- Doug Sisk [email protected]
- For providing RPM packages of MySQL for RedHat Linux.
- Diemand Alexander V. [email protected]
- For providing RPM packages of MySQL for RedHat Linux/Alpha.
- Antoni Pamies Olive [email protected]
- For providing RPM versions of a lot of MySQL clients for Intel and
SPARC.
- Jay Bloodworth [email protected]
- For providing RPM versions for MySQL 3.21 versions.
- Jochen Wiedmann [email protected]
- For maintaining the Perl
DBD::mysql module.
- Therrien Gilbert [email protected], Jean-Marc
Pouyot [email protected]
- French error messages.
- Petr snajdr, [email protected]
- Czech error messages.
- Jaroslaw Lewandowski [email protected]
- Polish error messages.
- Miguel Angel Fernandez Roiz
- Spanish error messages.
- Roy-Magne Mo [email protected]
- Norwegian error messages and testing of 3.21.#.
- Timur I. Bakeyev [email protected]
- Russian error messages.
- [email protected] && Filippo
Grassilli [email protected]
- Italian error messages.
- Dirk Munzinger [email protected]
- German error messages.
- Billik Stefan [email protected]
- Slovak error messages.
- David Sacerdote [email protected]
- Ideas for secure checking of DNS hostnames.
- Wei-Jou Chen [email protected]
- Some support for Chinese(BIG5) characters.
- Wei He [email protected]
- A lot of functionality for the Chinese(GBK) character set.
- Zeev Suraski [email protected]
FROM_UNIXTIME() time formatting, ENCRYPT() functions, and bison
adviser. Active mailing list member. - Luuk de Boer [email protected]
- 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 [email protected]
- Big parts of the Perl
DBI/DBD section in the manual.
- Paul Southworth [email protected], Ray Loyzaga [email protected]
- Proof-reading of the Reference Manual.
- Alexis Mikhailov [email protected]
- User definable functions (UDFs);
CREATE FUNCTION and DROP FUNCTION.
- Andreas F. Bobak [email protected]
- The
AGGREGATE extension to UDF functions.
- Ross Wakelin [email protected]
- Help to set up InstallShield for MySQL-Win32.
- Jethro Wright III [email protected]
- The `libmysql.dll' library.
- James Pereria [email protected]
- Mysqlmanager, a Win32 GUI tool for administrating MySQL.
- Curt Sampson [email protected]
- Porting of MIT-pthreads to NetBSD/Alpha and NetBSD 1.3/i386.
- Sinisa Milivojevic [email protected]
- Compression (with
zlib) to the client/server protocol. Perfect hashing for
the lexical analyzer phase.
- Antony T. Curtis [email protected]
- Porting of MySQL to OS/2.
- Martin Ramsch [email protected]
- Examples in the MySQL Tutorial.
Other contributors, bugfinders and testers: James H. Thompson, Maurizio Menghini,
Wojciech Tryc, Luca Berra, Zarko Mocnik, Wim Bonis, Elmar Haneke, jehamby@lightside, [email protected], 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 [email protected]
mailing list:
- Daniel Koch [email protected]
- Irix setup.
- Luuk de Boer [email protected]
- Benchmark questions.
- Tim Sailer [email protected]
DBD-mysql questions. - Boyd Lynn Gerber [email protected]
- SCO related questions.
- Richard Mehalick [email protected]
xmysql-releated questions and basic installation questions. - Zeev Suraski [email protected]
- Apache module configuration questions (log & auth), PHP-related questions, SQL
syntax related questions and other general questions.
- Francesc Guasch [email protected]
- General questions.
- Jonathan J Smith [email protected]
- Questions pertaining to OS-specifics with Linux, SQL syntax, and other things that might
be needing some work.
- David Sklar [email protected]
- Using MySQL from PHP and Perl.
- Alistair MacDonald [email protected]
- Not yet specified, but is flexible and can handle Linux and maybe HP-UX. Will try to get
user to use
mysqlbug.
- John Lyon [email protected]
- Questions about installing MySQL on Linux systems, using either `.rpm'
files, or compiling from source.
- Lorvid Ltd. [email protected]
- Simple billing/license/support/copyright issues.
- Patrick Sherrill [email protected]
- ODBC and VisualC++ interface questions.
- Randy Harmon [email protected]
DBD, Linux, some SQL syntax questions.
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