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Re: Sequel Pro – Open source macOS native MySQL GUI client

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Post by tmd83 »

m3at wrote: post #97
alpb wrote: post #36

Projects like these should be celebrated through donations and this project makes it easy. When’s the last time you’ve seen freeware developer tool for macOS that’s not from a corporation with money to spare? I personally can’t think of anything beyond iTerm (utility), Homebrew (utility), ...aaand that's where my list ends.

I share the feeling. I'd just like to add IINA [1] to the list, it's an excellent video player and I use it daily. [1] https://iina.io/

I have used iina myself. I was very fond of smplayer in linux and windows and iina is very similar in a lot of ways. I like to drag forward with keyboard shortcut and iina/mpv does that well. VLC makes a screeching sound with each drag. And per file position reminder is fabulous for breaks in watching a media.

Unfortunately the last pre 1.0 was giving error from Cylance on libuchardet.0.dylib. Anyone has any idea on that?

Re: Sequel Pro – Open source macOS native MySQL GUI client

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Post by nojvek »

SequelPro is amazing and I used it for many many years.

Now I’m using TablePlus which is a great paid client ($50 I think) and I love it.

I really hope in the new era, we can have paid open source tools with some bounties for important bug fixes and UX improvements.

That seems to be a very sustainable way to develop great software.

Re: Sequel Pro – Open source macOS native MySQL GUI client

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Post by wnscooke »

rjzzleep wrote: post #64
JimmyAustin wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think that freeware is really a part of the Apple Developer ecosystem. Most of the MacOS exclusive software I use on a daily basis costs $20-$30, a price I'm more than willing to pay for software like Pixelmator, DaisyDisk and Alfred that is significantly more polished (and Mac-ish) then the average piece of open-source software just due to the resources available to them.

It used to be though. I think the freeware culture slowly moved away at 10.5 or so. Maybe that was accelerated by the app store release in 10.6. Quicksilver, while at the time a terrible mess in terms of the code is basically the forefather of all these launchers. Apple also removed a lot of the MacOS APIs that allowed you to mod system components (e.g. input managers) around the same time.

I still use qs!

Re: Sequel Pro – Open source macOS native MySQL GUI client

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Post by dagaci »

pikzel wrote: post #80

It's ok. I mean, it's great that you put in all this time to give it away for free, but this is not where open source shines. This is lightyears behind professional SQL clients like SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) - even compared to what SSMS was 10 years ago!

Can't comment on Sequel Pro yet, but even SSMS is in need of improvement.

Re: Sequel Pro – Open source macOS native MySQL GUI client

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Post by mschaef »

nojvek wrote: post #132

SequelPro is amazing and I used it for many many years. Now I’m using TablePlus which is a great paid client ($50 I think) and I love it. I really hope in the new era, we can have paid open source tools with some bounties for important bug fixes and UX improvements. That seems to be a very sustainable way to develop great software.

> SequelPro is amazing and I used it for many many years.

Seconded.

I inherited an old MySQL/Java system and SequelPro was invaluable to understanding how it worked and keeping it running. At least until I added a view to the schema, the export/import facility was also very effective at taking and restoring snapshots of the database state. I could connect it to production, pull down an exported SQL script and then restore exactly that state to another environment. (Including local.)

(And given that it ran in OSX, it also had a plausible subset of Emacs keybidings too. :-) )

Re: Sequel Pro – Open source macOS native MySQL GUI client

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Post by jimmy1 »

pjmlp wrote: post #70
kowdermeister wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You know, Electron is perfect for these use cases: A table view, a tree view, few buttons, some dialogs.

Until you try to actually use more than demo data and need to resort to tricks to sort out unresponsive rendering. I have no love for Electron. Still remember Active Desktop, MSHTML, XUL and Symbian Web Runtime. As someone that does both native and Web fullstack, the place for Web technologies is on the browser, with approaches like PWAs.

Sequel Pro's query dialog grinds to a screeching halt on my 2018 model MBP when there is more than 1500 lines of text in the box.

Re: Sequel Pro – Open source macOS native MySQL GUI client

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Post by akfanta »

masklinn wrote: post #102
alpb wrote: post #36

Projects like these should be celebrated through donations and this project makes it easy. When’s the last time you’ve seen freeware developer tool for macOS that’s not from a corporation with money to spare? I personally can’t think of anything beyond iTerm (utility), Homebrew (utility), ...aaand that's where my list ends.

cyberduck, iina, adium, notational velocity, divvy, hex fiend, keka, xee, unicodechecker, textual, … That's just a subset of what I saw scanning my /Applications, and I don't specifically look out for replacing existing software with free (whether freedom or beer) applications.

> divvy, textual

Neither of these are freeware?

Re: Sequel Pro – Open source macOS native MySQL GUI client

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Post by joshuaturner »

rusty_pete wrote: post #122
angott wrote: post #15

It hasn't been updated in a very long time. Constant crashes on Mojave. I have transitioned away to TablePlus and DataGrip. Too bad because it was a very good tool for quick edits.

I too transitioned from Sequel Pro to TablePlus. Sequel Pro was buggy and wasn't supporting MySQL 8 properly. TablePlus has been great.

I tried out TablePlus, but at the time they were lacking user management.

With that recent addition, it's been able to completely replace Sequel Pro and Postico for Postgres management

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