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[Bo Thorsen <bo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Den 14-05-2010 10:01, Henrik Ingo skrev:
> (Adding maria-developers)
>
> On Wednesday 12 May 2010 16:10:36 Bo Thorsen wrote:
> > Den 12-05-2010 15:04, Henrik Ingo skrev:
> > > On Wednesday 12 May 2010 13:44:18 Michael Widenius wrote:
> > > > Hi!
> > > >
> > > > > > > > > "Bo" == Bo Thorsen<bo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>   writes:
> > > >
> > > > Bo>   Hi Daniel (and devs),
> > > > Bo>   I have uploaded a windows 32 bit build zip file to
> > > > Bo>
> > > > /srv/www/vhosts/main/download/mariadb-5.1.44b/windows/mariadb-noinstall-
> > > > 5.1 .44b-win32.zip.
> > > >
> > > > Bo>   How do I get this mentioned on the download page? And will the
> > > > mirrors Bo>   pick the file up automatically?
> > > >
> > > > Bo>   I'm not sure if we should add a warning about this zip file. It's
> > > > the Bo>   first one we have done in a while, something could have gone
> > > > wrong with it.
> > > >
> > > > It would be good if we could add a warning like:
> > > >
> > > > We are actively working on a better Windows installation. This is our
> > > > first try in this direction;  It *should* work, but it if doesn't
> > > > please report a bug about it so that we can fix it!
> > >
> > > Actually, the windows builds should be called beta for some time yet.
> > > Please also change the zip filename to indicate that (and make sure it
> > > says so on the download page).
> >
> > That's a change in what we usually do, since beta is only for the
> > software, not the packaging. It would be odd to have both a 5.1.44b and
> > a 5.1.44b-beta live at the site. People could be confused about what it
> > is. It's actually already live without the beta in the filename.
>
> It's not about the packaging but the platform. If you compile our sources for
> OS X, the sources are stable, but we never gave a guarantee that it will work
> at all for OS X. Windows is the same, we are only now paying attention to it.
> It's unreasonable to expect it will magically work just because we already do
> stable releases for Linux and Solaris.

I agree there is a risk that some of the code we have added between 
5.1.39 and now can be broken on Windows.

> > And the scripts haven't changed since we last released this, so I don't
> > think it's a high risk.
>
> Ok, this is an argument I can buy. We've had one beta out, if no problems were
> reported, we could move to stable.
>
> Even so, my personal preference is to call the windows release stable only
> once we have a automated (buildbot based) system that outputs binaries without
> manual steps - I consider that more reliable as a process.
>
> To do the manually built zip file fills a need our users have, but isn't yet
> the end goal.

The steps I do manually are exactly what the buildbot system will do. I 
just uncomment the lines that do visual studio build and run the scripts.

At one of the first runs I did, I modified the script to do this:

if [ "x_$1" != "x_-nobuild" ]; then
  win/configure-mariadb.sh

  cmake -G "Visual Studio 9 2008"

  devenv.com MySQL.sln /build RelWithDebInfo
  devenv.com MySQL.sln /build Debug
fi

The only modification here from the checked in script, is the if statement.

When I run "sh win/make_mariadb_win_dist -nobuild", I just have to run 
the build lines manually before the script.

Perhaps I should check this if into the lp:maria?

Bo.