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I’m developing a new version of the easy to use launcher for MySQL on OS X.

At the moment I’m working on the user interface and the user interactions, and have already implemented the configuration files’ parser.

The new version will implement some cool features, useful for testing and working with MySQL on a single machine:

• user preferences will implement:
  • MySQL configuration file paths;
  • configurations for servers that aren’t configured in any configuration file (so you can create server instances on the fly);
  • capability to set the main window display (if you have more than one display);
  • many other little preferences like the update frequency and the alerts options;
• multi server management for pre-configured servers and instant servers;
• testing area for querying the servers;
• report area;
• user area.

So, what I need is a little help in creating a test environment on my Mac. It is very important  for me, because it means knowing how to parse the configuration files (I’ve implemented a way yet, but I don’t know if it is right). Then it will help me in understanding what’s the most efficient way to monitor the servers and so on..

I need also someone to test the application. It is very important, because there are so many versions of MySQL server community and there are infinity ways to configure it. I’d like to realize a Universal application, something that works with any configuration.

Before you say it: I don’t want to use MySQL sandbox, because I want to recreate a real working environment.

I will appreciate any help from you all =)

Thank you!