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[Peter Laursen <peter_laursen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I never experienced the need to reboot Windows after install. I have been
installing at least 200 times.

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 13:58, Steve Obbayi <steve@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi All, one thing we need to know is that windows users a lot of the times
> are beginners.
> In addition to that the installer needs to be able to:
> 1. create the default user
> 2. Choose the location of the data files (not just innoDB but for the other
> storage engines)
> 3. Ability to install multiple servers based on port
> 4. Tell the user to reboot the computer after installation. I found
> sometimes after a fresh install of mysql on windows it doesnt say that but
> the server behaves erratic until the time one has to restart the computer.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Arjen Lentz" <arjen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Sergey Petrunya" <psergey@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Rohit Nadhani" <rn@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Khushboo Verma" <
> khushboo.verma@xxxxxxxxxx>, maria-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 5:51:35 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: [Maria-developers] Windows installer kick-off
>
> Hi Sergey, all
>
> On 14/10/2009, at 6:41 PM, Sergey Petrunya wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:44:01AM +0200, Peter Laursen wrote:
> >> The billion dollar question is: what options should a config wizard
> >> (ideally) provide?
> >> .
> >> base configuration (memory requirements, #of_connections assumed):
> >> use:
> >> mini, midi, medium. large, huge --template
> >> default storage engine: MyISAM, Maria, XtraDB, PBXT
> >> default charset: latin1, utf8, custom
> >> enable slow log: yes|no
> >> enable general log: yes|no
> >> enable query cache: yes|no
> >> .. what else is important?
> > Parameters that would allow to install multiple servers side-by side:
> > port to listen on, named pipe name, perhaps windows service name.
> > Binary log should probably always be enabled.
>
> Forget the named pipe, since it's slower.
>
> > I don't think work on installer should include development of a
> > configurator
> > that will cover all options. Imo, the goals of install-time
> > configurator should
> > be:
> >
> > * Allow one to get to runnable setup always. This means ability to
> > specify
> >  install directory, port number, service name (i.e. allow to change
> > any
> >  setting that might get into conflict with something).
>
> install dir (default derived from version), service name, port
> number... yes.
>
>
> > * Allow to change 'simple' options (e.g. what to use as default
> > storage engine,
> >  sql_mode, and other stuff that a newcomer might be immediately
> > interested in.
>
> A newcomer does not know enough to either sensibly decide on storage
> engine, or sql_mode.
> So we should pick what is sensible, and that's InnoDB with
> sql_mode=TRADITIONAL.
> As I noted, this is already what the Sun/MySQL Windows wizard defaults
> to, unless you specify that you don't want transactions.
> Now the latter is something I don't care for asking, because people
> really don't appreciate the implications of the question.
> Furthermore, it would be great to have MariaDB be ACID compliant "out
> of the box", on all platforms.
> And it'd be nice if the config on Windows would be (at least broadly)
> the same as on *nix.
>
>
> > I don't think it makes sense to offer the user to specify options like
> > query_cache_size - there's hardly anybody who could come up with a
> > meaningful
> > value at install time. Most users won't know, those who know exactly
> > will
> > probably prefer to edit the config file over using installer's GUI.
>
>
> Exactly.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Arjen.
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