[mythtv] [PATCH] Bootstrap mysql.txt in mythcontext
Jeremiah Morris
jm at whpress.com
Tue Nov 30 01:02:47 UTC 2004
For those who don't remember this thread, Nigel Pearson was working on
a graphical method of specifying the mysql.txt parameters. After a few
attempts that didn't pass muster, Nigel and I have developed a fully
Myth-themed implementation of this feature.
http://whpress.com/mysqltxt_gui.tar.bz2
[The package contains a diff and two files (dbsettings.cpp/.h) for the
libs/libmyth directory.]
If the initial database connection fails, mythfrontend (or the setup
program, it works from either) will show a configuration wizard to set
the host, database name, etc. The same settings are also available from
the General setup wizard, so you can edit a working mysql.txt from
within mythfrontend. Programs without a GUI will use console-based
prompts to read database parameters if the connection fails.
- Jeremiah
P.S. This isn't completely orthogonal to David Hardeman's proposed
PostgreSQL support, but it shouldn't be too difficult to integrate with
that project. There's initial support for the "DBType" field that
David suggested.
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