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[Bo Thorsen <bo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Den 10-05-2010 10:51, Peter Laursen skrev:
> 1) I did not do any work really.  I just commented on the workflow of
> such (what conditions should be checked, what files the installer should
> copy and where, update registry with service details, uninstallation
> information etc. etc.).  But discussion stopped months ago - probably
> because something else got focus.

Ok, that's good to know. Then I didn't miss an opportunity to save some 
work.

> 2) I understand that this is about getting "binary windows distribution
> back on track".  Maybe I misunderstood, but with a binary and
> installable version there should not be any need for anything else than
> the installer itself (and Windows of course).  Did you only mean that
> NSIS shared libraries will need to be installed to build a distro with
> installer (ie. developers will need it)?  That is clear of course, but
> end users should not need to install anything in advance to installing
> MariaDB. It should install as the first program on a fresh Windows
> installation.

This produces a single exe file with everything in it. Nothing else is 
needed.

> BTW: I think the installer should not replace the zipped distro. It is
> not OR - it is AND.  One reason is that you may want to grab a file
> without actually installing.

I strongly disagree with this. The zip file installation is something 
I've never seen outside the MySQL world. IMHO it's just extra work with 
no benefit.

> Also do not forget to test on Vista and Win7.  Do not take for granted
> that it will work just be cause it does on XP (or rather it will work,
> but Windows may print error messages to user during install).

I have all of these three here and test on all of them.

>  Most
> important every installer will have to register an uninstaller - if not
> Vista+ will complain that 'this program was not installed correctly'.
> And that is a problem actually when using a NSIS-based installer for
> upgrading!  We ourselves had to do a very dirty hack to get rid of those
> popup messages (that are very confusing to users) when upgrading SQLyog
> and MONyog on those systems.  I can ask Sayan here to provide more
> details about this.

The CPack system automatically produces an uninstaller as well, which 
was a pleasant surprise.

Upgrading is one of two important things I really haven't done any work 
on yet. (Install as a service being the other.)

I do want to modify the uninstaller later, though. It's not supposed to 
remove the database files before asking the user if this is really 
correct or not. I'm sure an update will also just overwrite your 
database, which is completely wrong. As I said, it's still a work in 
progress.

Bo.

> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 13:56, Bo Thorsen <bo@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:bo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     Den 10-05-2010 10:23, Peter Laursen skrev:
>
>         3 points/questions:
>
>         1) NSIS should be bundled.
>
>
>     How do you mean? It's building a standalone installer, nsis is not
>     needed for installation. It's only needed if you build the installer
>     package.
>
>
>         2) And not installing as a service never was the idea.
>
>
>     It should be installed as a service, but that's not done yet.
>
>
>         3) Will this installer handle upgrading too?
>
>
>     It should :-)
>
>     I know you did a lot of work on an installer as well. How did you do
>     it, and how far did you get? It might be that I'd continue with your
>     work instead of this.
>
>     Bo.
>
>         On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:55, Bo Thorsen <bo@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>         <mailto:bo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>         <mailto:bo@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:bo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>>> wrote:
>
>             Hi everyone,
>
>             I have been looking at getting our binary windows
>         distribution back
>             on track. One of the options would be to create the zip file
>         like we
>             did earlier.
>
>             Another way would be to create a proper windows installer.
>         For this,
>             there are several options: NSIS, WIX, etc. I spent a bit of time
>             investigating the CPack parts of CMake. And during the
>             investigation, I managed to pretty much write an entire
>         installer.
>             It was quite easy.
>
>             The way this works is to add INSTALL instructions in the
>             CMakeFiles.txt, plus a bit of extra information for building the
>             installer package. You can see this in the patch I have
>         attached.
>
>             With the patch applied, you have to install NSIS
>             (http://nsis.sourceforge.net) and add it to the path. Build
>         MariaDB
>             in release, and run "cpack" in the MariaDB tree. It's NSIS based
>             because this seems to be the one cpack works best with.
>
>             The question is what direction to continue in. I'd
>         appreciate some
>             feedback on this, because I'm not certain if it's the right
>         way to
>             go. It has been pretty easy so far, so I'm pretty happy to
>         continue
>             with it.
>
>             IMHO, the most important thing not implemented in this
>         installer yet
>             is to set up MariaDB as a service.
>
>             I'm going to focus on getting Windows running in KVM for our
>             buildbot system now. And then I'll get back to this later.
>
>             Cheers,
>
>             Bo Thorsen.
>
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