[GTG] Re: [ITP] libiodbc, freetds, mysql, phonon (qt4 deps)

["Dr. Volker Zell" <dr dot volker dot zell at oracle dot com>]

>>>>> Yaakov  writes:

    > poppler includes qt4 bindings, so I can't delay the qt4 upgrade any
    > longer.  These new dependencies are already in major distros.  (FWIW,
    > this would also resolve the missing dependencies for ITPing PHP.)

    > * iODBC:
    > ftp://ftp.cygwinports.org/pub/cygwinports/release-2/libiodbc/

Builds fine from source, packaging and setup.hint look good
    
    > ftp://ftp.cygwinports.org/pub/cygwinports/release-2/odbc-psql/

Packaging and setup.hint look good
    
    > ftp://ftp.cygwinports.org/pub/cygwinports/release-2/odbc-sqlite3/

Packaging and setup.hint look good
    
    > There are two ODBC implementations for *NIX: iODBC and unixODBC.  There
    > is no reason for both and they partially conflict; I chose iODBC for
    > various technical reasons.  Drivers for PostreSQL and SQLite3, the SQL
    > engines already in the distro, are available separately.

    > * FreeTDS:
    > ftp://ftp.cygwinports.org/pub/cygwinports/release-2/freetds/

Packaging and setup.hint look good
    
    > Includes an ODBC driver.

    > * MySQL:
    > ftp://ftp.cygwinports.org/pub/cygwinports/release-2/mysql/

Builds fine from source, packaging and setup.hint look good
    
    > ftp://ftp.cygwinports.org/pub/cygwinports/release-2/Perl/perl-DBI/

Packaging and setup.hint look good
    
    > ftp://ftp.cygwinports.org/pub/cygwinports/release-2/Perl/perl-DBD-mysql/

Packaging and setup.hint look good
    
    > ftp://ftp.cygwinports.org/pub/cygwinports/release-2/odbc-mysql/

Packaging and setup.hint look good

    > I consider the server to be experimental and not for production use.
    > The client side is working fine, as does the embedded server as best as
    > I can tell (amarok uses it).  The perl modules are required for some of
    > the server administration scripts.  Also includes the upstream ODBC
    > driver.

    > * Phonon:
    > ftp://ftp.cygwinports.org/pub/cygwinports/uploads/phonon/

Packaging and setup.hint look good

    > While an older version is shipped with Qt itself, KDE requires the newer
    > versions they ship.  I hacked the qt4 build to use this version, so its
    > used by QtWebKit, qtconfig, and qtdemo.

    > Phonon uses backends, so this won't do anything yet until I ITP
    > GStreamer, but that can wait for the moment.


    > Yaakov

Ciao
  Volker