Sqlyog Running Natively On Linux

[jps]

Hi,

Does anyone know or has anyone heard rumours wheather SqlYog will ever be ported to Linux?

I do run it on Fedora Core 5 with varying degreees of success but compared to the same installation running on a Windows machine – well, it's rather pedestrian and comes up with an assortment of issues …. no doubt Wine related but I can't whinge about something free.

We are in the process of giving windows the cold shoulder, but at the moment we have to retain at least one Windows machine for some of the more esoteric task we do with SqlYog. Yes, I know – we could be using a number of Linux mysql dba apps or the command line, for that matter,. but we just like SqlYog and would be rather sad to bid it goodbye.

Cheers,

Jen

[peterlaursen]

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I do run it on Fedora Core 5 with varying degreees of success but compared to the same installation running on a Windows machine – well, it's rather pedestrian and comes up with an assortment of issues

Could you explain those issues please! My personal experience with SqLyog running on Wine/SuSE (10.0 and 10.1) is that SQLyog performs better here than it does on Windows! But I also think that SuSE has more 'dedicated' support for Wine than FEDORA has.

However we have an older FEDORA (3 or 4 – I do not remember) at our Bangalore Office running Wine 0.9.2. Here are no problems either.

There are two known issues with SQLyog on Wine:

1) Favorites: you can edit favorites and save a favorite, but not paste into the editor and thus a favorite is not of much use!

2) autocomplete: the CTRL+ENTER and CTRL+SPACE shortcuts do not work on Wine.

If you still have the Wine that shipped with Fedora5 try updating it by entering 'yum install wine' from a command shell.

Actually you see still more cross-platform software being built on Wine – such as Google Picassa. We have been discussing building our own 'yogwine' that only contains the Wine components that we need and that are fully stable. For instance we do not need 3D-graphics and sound support. Also as Codeweavers have now launched beta1 of their DarWine port of Wine for Mac-OS-X I think that we will see wine 'grow' considerably in short time. Also Wine on Solaris and HP-UX are 'accelerated'. And the FreeBSD/PC-BSD version is pretty much up-to-date.

CodeWeaver's announcement: http://crossover.codeweavers.com/pipermail…ust/000033.html

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