[Phpmyadmin-devel] Setting up a development environment

[Isaac Bennetch]

On 5/9/15 4:22 PM, Dan Ungureanu wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have not formally introduced myself since I was accepted in Google
> Summer of Code, but I hope it is not too late. My name is Dan and I am a
> first year student at the University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania.
> My proposal was about the SQL parser and analyzer of phpMyAdmin and this
> summer I am going to rewrite it from scratch. Basically, what I want to
> achieve is more advanced analysis and better performance. If you want to
> check out my proposal, you can find it on the blog I set up here [1] and
> where I am going to write weekly reports about my progress during the
> summer.
> 
> I already started working on the library and so far I am pleased with
> the result, but before proceeding further I would like to test it under
> appropriate conditions. I was hoping that you could suggest me a way to
> properly configure an environment that I can use for testing. What I am
> looking for is a multi-server environment where I can set up and use
> multiple versions of MySQL, MariaDB and Drizzle that and multiple MySQL
> modes as well. I tried using multiple virtual machines but having more
> than 3 or 4 stresses my laptop a lot. So far I believe that multiple
> Docker instances is what I am looking for. Since phpMyAdmin is so
> broadly used with so many configurations, I believe that the SQL parser
> should take into consideration all these factors and that is why I want
> to test my library under these conditions.

I have a couple of virtual machines (through VirtualBox) and start/stop
them as needed to avoid using too many resources. My main machine is
Debian and uses the provided packages, but I also try to test a few
older and newer versions that I compile myself.

Hope that helps

> I am looking forward for your suggestions. Thank you very much!
> 
> [1] http://dan.ungureanu.tk/gsoc-2015/
> 
> Best regards,
> Dan Ungureanu
> 
> 
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