Peter's Blog

After a couple of weeks of neglect I ran an update on the packages on my debian server. It gave me a few surprises:

• it upgraded mysql from 4.1 to version 5
• it uninstalled the webmin mysql module
• it uninstalled my vim-python version 6.3 and installed plain vim version 6.4

The new version of mysql seems to be running smoothly (or you wouldn't be reading this). Must see if it supports cascade delete, my all-time favourite sybase sqlanywhere feature.

I manually installed vim-python using dselect and was happy. Installer glitch. I haven't addressed webmin-mysql yet, it wasn't obvious from what dselect showed me whether what it had would work with mysql 5. Maybe it doesn't say because it doesn't matter? I find webmin-mysql can do all the mysql database administration I need (create database, add users, set permissions, view table etc) with a much simpler interface than phpmyadmin, which is slightly ott.

I think vim 6.4 is a bug fix release. Upgrading on windows involves recompiling it with python support, not a big deal but it takes time that could be spent doing other things. Sometimes I contemplate hosting vim-python for windows downloads as a public service. I'll contemplate it some more.