Hi,
Download beta 1 on Win32.
1) installer usability failure
- cannot start the installer with a Firebird service (1.5 & 2.5) running, even
though I’d like to install as a separate instance
- a warning would be fine, but even if it’s Firebird 3 running, it should be
possible to install as an additional instance
2) the installer warning about Firebird 2.5
- why can’t I do a normal installation because 2.5 is already installed? This
was the message I got:
--8<--
Pre-installation analysis indicates that 1 existing Firebird or Interbase
version has been found.Firebird 2.5.2.26540 (Win32) Full installation of
Classic Server and development tools. (Installation appears to be correct.)
If you continue with this installation Firebird will be installed but not
configured. You will have to complete installation manually. Do you want to
CANCEL this installation?
--8<--
3) Installer ReadMe:
--8<--
Before installation
-------------------
It is recommended that you UNINSTALL all previous
versions of Firebird or InterBase before installing
this package. It is especially important to verify that
fbclient.dll and gds32.dll are removed from <system32>.
--8<--
What now? Same issue as above: multiple instances is supported, so why this
warning?
4) Installation folder:
Default folder selected was this:
C:\Program Files\Firebird\Firebird_3_0
This is an existing Fb 3 folder. When I click “Browse”, somehow it selects:
C:\Program Files\Firebird
The edit box above the treeview lists the full path, but if I expand and select
my Firebird 3 folder, it insists on concatenating “Firebird_3_0”, so I end up
with:
C:\Program Files\Firebird\Firebird_3_0\Firebird_3_0
5) Including the drivers: good!
Although I would say that “including source” should be unchecked by default for
the –> normal server <- install.
6) ODBC?
- After installation, it asks you to open the ODBC Driver folder. Is the ODBC
driver installed or isn’t it? This is unclear to me.
Apparently, this only installs the ODBC installer? Why not execute that as well?
7) SYSDBA
The installer creates SYSDBA (yay!), could a custom password entry box be added
for this?
-> After I uninstalled Fb 3, I noticed that when using the installer again, a
custom password CAN be entered. Why and how is this difference caused?
8) Uninstaller
- it’s possible to run the Uninstaller, while Firebird is running
Starting command line:
"C:\Program Files\Firebird\Firebird_3_0\firebird.exe" -a -i -p 3054 -m
- the installer then finishes with “Firebird is uninstalled succesfully”, which
is rubbish, as most file still exists in the installation folder!
- the installer also told me “Succes”, when files got locked in another way
I removed the file & folder manually, for some reason, when installing some
files had “read only” set to true, but the installer “success”-message was
obviously wrong.
- installed again, into a new folder, uninstalled again, after uninstall,
there’s lots of files left.
- files ending with .url are registered as shared files? Yet, they’re in the Fb
3 folder and can be removed safely without prompting the user, can’t they?
Hope this helps.
With regards,
Martijn Tonies
Upscene Productions
http://www.upscene.com
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