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MySQL Sandbox 3.0.28 with more support for MySQL 5.6

Written for MySQL Sandbox by Giuseppe Maxia on 2013-01-06

MySQL-Sandbox 3.0.28 now supports MySQL 5.6 in more ways. In addition to creating sandboxes without errors, it does also suppress the unnecessary verbosity, it makes the 'clear' command safer, and it adds a script to enable global transaction ID in replication.

MySQL Sandbox 3.0.19 supports more binary tarballs

Written for MySQL Sandbox by Giuseppe Maxia on 2011-10-09

MySQL Sandbox 3.0.19 now supports tarballs that don't start with 'mysql'.
Supported prefixes are 'mysql', 'percona', and 'mariadb'.
You can also add a prefix to the extracted tarball directory.
These changes have the side effect of making "make_sandbox" backward incompatible. The syntax goes from
"make_sandbox TARBALL [--export_binaries] [options for low_level_make_sandbox]"
to
"make_sandbox [--export_binaries|--add_prefix] TARBALL -- [options for low_level_make_sandbox]"
(notice the '--' before the final options)

MySQL Sandbox 3.0 GA

Written for MySQL Sandbox by Giuseppe Maxia on 2009-05-09

MySQL Sandbox 3.0 is now ready.
New features include: installation as Perl module, the sandbox tool, a test suite with 200 tests, user defined tests, port checking, ability to install from a source directory and from already installed binaries, moving, copying, preserving and deleting sandboxes, creating hierarchical replication systems.

MySQL Sandbox 3.0 release candidate

Written for MySQL Sandbox by Giuseppe Maxia on 2009-05-04

MySQL Sandbox is now in release candidate status. If no bugs are reported on the latest version (2.0.99f), I will repackage it as 3.0.
In addition to the list of features previously announced, I managed to implement another feature that has been in the wish list for long time, i.e. creating a sandbox from existing binaries, such as the ones installed by a .rpm or .deb package.

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