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About
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Thank you for your interest in Boots.
The Boots shell is a flexible, extensible, and multilingual shell for working
with databases. It currently supports connecting to Drizzle and MySQL servers.
Boots is hosted on Launchpad at http://www.launchpad.net/boots. This includes
the source code, blueprints, and issue tracker.
Boots is still under development and you may encounter bugs. Please report bugs
at https://bugs.launchpad.net/boots.
Dependencies
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To connect to Drizzle and MySQL servers, Boots requires one of the following:
Python libdrizzle bindings -- http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-libdrizzle/
MySQLdb -- http://mysql-python.sourceforge.net/MySQLdb.html
For the LISP lingo:
[Optional] Ply -- http://www.dabeaz.com/ply/
Installing Boots
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To download the Boots source code:
bzr branch lp:boots
To install Boots:
python setup.py install
Using Boots
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Invoke boots from your command interpreter prompt as follows:
> boots -H HOSTNAME -p PORT DATABASE
Then type an SQL statement, end it with ``;'' and press Enter.
The manpage includes usage details.
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