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[Henrik Ingo <henrik.ingo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Drizzle currently offers for download source tar, rpm and deb of each
release.

Historically MySQL has also offered a binary tar files. The main use
case for those seems to be:

 - many just like to install mysql in /usr/local/mysql as their primary
method.

 - in particular this allows them to keep many installations lying
around in /usr/local/, switching between them with a symlink. With
Deb/Rpm you can only keep one version installed.

 - it is possible to keep several versions of drizzle installed at the
same time, such as both stable version and development or beta version.

It would probably increase drizzle adoption if users were offered this
option.

** Affects: drizzle
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: low-hanging-fruit packaging

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/823272

Title:
  Offer binary tar for download

Status in A Lightweight SQL Database for Cloud Infrastructure and Web Applications:
  New

Bug description:
  Drizzle currently offers for download source tar, rpm and deb of each
  release.

  Historically MySQL has also offered a binary tar files. The main use
  case for those seems to be:

   - many just like to install mysql in /usr/local/mysql as their
  primary method.

   - in particular this allows them to keep many installations lying
  around in /usr/local/, switching between them with a symlink. With
  Deb/Rpm you can only keep one version installed.

   - it is possible to keep several versions of drizzle installed at the
  same time, such as both stable version and development or beta
  version.

  It would probably increase drizzle adoption if users were offered this
  option.

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