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[Peter Laursen <peter_laursen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Event Viewer has some info like 'Product: MariaDB 5.2 (x64) -- Installation
failed.' But nothing that can be used really. -- Peter

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 18:54, Peter Laursen <peter_laursen@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Same problem with 64 bit. Installation path, port and service name does not
> matter. i am not upgrading (path, port, service are all new). Rollback
> occurs after 'running install_mysql_db.exe' (or similar) occurs in the
> installer splash screen.
>
> -- Peter
>
> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 18:45, Peter Laursen <peter_laursen@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> sorry .. it was 32 bit installer!
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 18:43, Peter Laursen <peter_laursen@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>>> hmmm .. installer rolls back.  Why?
>>>
>>> 64 bit build on 64 bit Win7 (UAC disabled). Default file path.  No
>>> conflicts with ports or service name specified.  After rollback there is no
>>> track left.
>>>
>>>
>>> -- Peter
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 18:05, Vladislav Vaintroub <wlad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> > -----Original Message-----
>>>> > From: Kristian Nielsen [mailto:knielsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>>>> > Sent: Dienstag, 1. Februar 2011 14:59
>>>> > To: Vladislav Vaintroub
>>>> > Cc: maria-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; serg@xxxxxxxxxxxx; Michael
>>>> Widenius
>>>> > Subject: Re: [Maria-developers] Windows installer MWL#55 finished.
>>>> >
>>>> > "Vladislav Vaintroub" <wlad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>> >
>>>> > > Wizard is an MFC application. I'm sorry for that, but my Windows
>>>> C/C++ GUI programming experience is not only rusty (prior to
>>>> this
>>>> > > WL last time I used it was more than  a decade ago), it is also
>>>> restricted to MFC only. Being MFC application, it will require
>>>> at
>>>> > > least VS Professional to build.  There is no MFC in  free Visual
>>>> Studio Express edition,  nor in free Windows SDK.  Build and
>>>> > > packaging process will handle missing MFC gracefully (build won't
>>>> try to compile upgrade wizard,  package won't include it , and
>>>> > > installer won't  start it at the end of installation).
>>>> >
>>>> > What license are we distributing the wizard source code under?
>>>>
>>>> > The reason I ask is that because of the above dependency, GPL may not
>>>> be
>>>> > appropriate (and since it sounds like a new application, nor is it
>>>> > necessary). So we might consider another license, eg. BSD or if
>>>> prefered some
>>>> > other more copy-left license. Or just GPL-with-MFC-exception.
>>>> >
>>>> > I don't really have an opinion myself for one license or the other, I
>>>> just
>>>> > wanted to point out the issue to make sure it is considered by those
>>>> that do
>>>> > care. Since it sounds like if we just use GPL, we may be releasing
>>>> something
>>>> > that formally others cannot redistribute without violating the
>>>> license. Which
>>>> > I think we should avoid, even if we're obviously not planning to sue
>>>> anyone
>>>> > over it ...
>>>>
>>>> Not sure I'm correct person  to start discussions over the of GPL, I
>>>> think I'm not qualified.
>>>>
>>>> I do know there is a plenty of established open source projects that use
>>>> MFC, including GPLv2, such as different incarnations of
>>>> Tortoise (SVN,CVS, BZR, HG).
>>>>
>>>> >From my point of view,  it is just a  system library. It came bundled
>>>> with compiler, just like other library CRT which is non-GPL
>>>> that we use extensively for quite important functionality like strcpy()
>>>> or say fopen().  Maybe this explanation will satisfy GPL
>>>> purists. I do not think CRT , MFC , ATL (libraries that come bundled
>>>> with Visual Studio) have any written license, at least I have
>>>> never seen one. The source code is available, and installed together
>>>> with Visual Studio.  If  one needs to redistribute one of this
>>>> libraries  as DLLs, there is Microsoft EULA that basically allows
>>>> inclusion into any software . But we do not even do that, as we
>>>> link Visual Studio libraries (CRT, and also MFC now) statically,
>>>> MySQL-ish way.
>>>>
>>>> >  - Kristian.
>>>>
>>>>
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