That is a really good idea - though I am not sure there is much of those out there to justify the cause, nor many developers actually using UDFs.
Still, having them all in one place could be nothing but a good thing. MarkP On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 14:39:11 +0100 (BST), Dan Bolser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I searched for previous discussion on this topic, but didn't find any. > > I would like to see a centralized MySQL hosted UDF archive and development > project. The only existing 'archives' seem to be somewhat poorly > maintained (sorry), and suffer for their duplicated efforts and being > loosely distributed throughout the web. > > The best I can find are here (ranked according to Google)... > > http://empyrean.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/~nem/mysql/udf/ > http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2292 > http://www.thecodeproject.com/Purgatory/mygroupconcat.asp > http://mysql-udf.sourceforge.net/ > http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6841 > > I think a centralized project would do wonders for the UDF community, > allowing UDF's to be discussed, suggested and developed under one roof. A > first step should be to create a [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. Without > such a central list the UDF community can't communicate effectively. Who > better than MySQL to organize the MySQL UDF community? > > A simple "not officially supported" statement is all that is needed. Good > UDF's could become part of MySQL proper, and a UDF 'bundle' would be a > great development. MySQL programmers could help build UDF's, and the > community could vote on 'wanted' functions. > > You could probably guess where all this is going, and that is towards my > own UDF request (where to ask?), but I will leave that for later. > > Any comments? Any postings that I have missed? Any reason that their is no > udf mailing list? I think that their are tons of UDF's waiting to happen, > given the right conditions. > > All the best, > Dan. > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Mark Papadakis Head of R&D Phaistos Networks, S.A -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
