Wlad, I will be able to do some testing with this, perhaps in the next 10 days or so. I can test the upgrade on 32-bit, 64-bit, and a variety version of Windows (2003, 2008, 2008 R2), if necessary.
Haidong Ji On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Vladislav Vaintroub <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > I updated the MWL#55 (Windows installer) with the upgrade information. Now, > people will be able to upgrade between prior MariaDB (or > prior MySQL) versions using upgrade wizard, which is by default launched at > the end of installation, if upgradable instances are > found . > Users will also be able to use Upgrade Wizard after the installation, at > any the time convenient for them. Upgrade wizard will > also be included into ZIP distribution. Besides GUI Wizard, there is a > command line utility mysql_upgrade_service.exe to perform > all operations necessary to upgrade an existing database instance > registered as service (in fact GUI wizard uses this > mysql_upgrade_service.exe as "backend"). > > 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). > > The repository that includes the final windows installer is > lp:~maria-captains/maria/5.2-windows-packaging-upgrade > > Building installer is described in > http://askmonty.org/worklog/Server-Sprint/?tid=55 (Section "Building > installer", at the very > start of the WL). > > Monty or Sergei (or volunteers if any): Can you please have a look the above > repo and do a review . I tried to split the big patch > into parts, but I did not find the result to be too satisfactory > > Philip: would you be able to test the upgrade wizard? You need a service > running under some older mysqld.exe binary (e.g. install > MySQL 5.1), you'll should get upgrade wizard launched at the end of install. > You should also get Wizard at the end of installation > any time you have an older version of Maria running as service. > > Thanks and best regards, > > Wlad > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
