Feb 05
I recently installed a copy of the MySQL database server on my Leopard machine. The MySQL site offers a packaged version of MySQL 5.0.x for OS X 10.4 on their downloads page (current as of this posting: 5.0.51).
This 10.4 version works perfectly well with 10.5, except for some minor inconveniences. The first is that they include a preference pane for System Preferences, which doesn’t work. They also offer to install a StartupItem to start the database server during boot. This works pretty well, except that Apple has marked StartupItems as depreciated since 10.4, noting that you should use launchd instead. There are many hints out there to create a launchd job using the MySQL supplied launch…
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