[fpc-pascal] Migrate mantis bugtracker

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 31 Jul 2014, silvioprog wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
>       Hi,
>
>       In case someone is interested:
>
>       I created a FPC program to migrate a mantis bugtracker database from MySQL to Postgres.
>
>       The reason for creating such a beast is that MySQL is inferior to Postgres in many ways,
>       and so we're switching the FPC bugtracker from MySQL to Postgres. (the recent bugtracker downtime is no stranger to this decision)
>
>       The program takes care of several conversion pitfalls: Different data types and erroneous data (MySQL allows wrong UTF8 in the tables, postgres rightly complains about it).
>
>       If someone has interest in such a program : let me know, and I'll send you the sources.
>
>       Michael.
> 
> 
> Hello buddy!
> 
> I'm interested! Please send it to Github, that way everyone will benefit. :-)

Well, FPC also has a repository for this kind of side-projects:

Just check out

http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpcprojects/convertmantis

Michael.