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C Contributors to MySQL

Contributors to the MySQL distribution are listed below, in somewhat random order:

Michael (Monty) Widenius
Has written the following parts of MySQL:
David Axmark
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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