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[Bo Thorsen <bo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Den 18-06-2010 08:05, Colin Charles skrev:
> Hi!
>
> On 17 Jun 2010, at 16:20, Bo Thorsen wrote:
>
> > There is no support for setting up the database in the installer, or
> > setting up MariaDB as a service. CMake+NSIS is just a dumb file copy
> > system. MySQL works around this by running another executable at the
> > end of the install process and this program does the setup. IMHO,
> > that's a very good solution, and it also allows the user to run the
> > setup program again later. But it's still a workaround due to the
> > limited installer system.
> >
> > NSIS would be my choice for an installer right now. But because of the
> > limitations, I'd consider this a temporary solution until we have a
> > better one. See my next mail for a better but much more complex system.
>
>
> I'm for this solution. It seems to be closest to what MySQL offers
> upstream,

Well, this is something I should have commented on in the first two mails.

There are two parts to an installer setup in CPack, configuration and 
file setup.

The configuration is of course going to be different between an NSIS and 
WiX version, but these are very few lines, and they can be put in a 
separate file for NSIS. For WiX, the setup is done in the .xsl file, 
which is probably going to be quite big.

The file setup is lines like this:

INSTALL(FILES libmysql/libmysql.def DESTINATION include COMPONENT headers)

That's of course shared between any installer implementation, and these 
are the only type of lines spread out over the tree.

So, even if choose a different road than MySQL, it's going to be a 
really small difference.

> and the workaround makes it simple

Yes and no. I've been working on this workaround, and it's quite 
difficult to implement.

Plus it means forking the NSIS implementation in CMake to a local 
version :( It's possible I can do this workaround in a generic way (this 
is what I intend) and get this patch into CMake, which would help a lot 
for us.

> and it would mean we can
> get an installer much quicker, thus helping those that use the Microsoft
> platform as an OS of choice

To me, this is the winning argument for now. We need a usable solution 
*right now*, not a great solution in some months.

Unless someone objects loudly, I'll continue with the NSIS 
implementation, and take another look at WiX sometime later.

Bo Thorsen.
Monty Program AB.

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