It seems that http://downloads.askmonty.org/mariadb/ still has the old NSIS-based installer for 5.1.55? -- Peter
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 00:46, Vladislav Vaintroub <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kazuhisa > > Ichikawa > > Sent: Sonntag, 6. Februar 2011 09:32 > > To: Vladislav Vaintroub > > Cc: Philip Stoev; [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [Maria-developers] Windows installer MWL#55 finished. > > Hello, Kazuhisa > > No :-). My experience with MySQL installers is limited to fresh > > install. This is the first time I tried 'upgrade' and my expectation > > was purely imaginary. > > Right, there is no upgrade functionality in MySQLs installers up-to-now > (nor > I heard or any planning for it recently). But I noticed that both you and > Philip had quite similar requests for the changed UI in case of "upgrade > possible". Both of you recommended changes at the "Database Properties" > dialog, I think it is wrong place, by the time you enter this dialog it is > too late, you should not have entered this dialog, as the intention was > not > "create new", but "upgrade existing" anyway.. > > So since both of my users have pointed to usability issues, I added a new > dialog that comes after license agreement that and tells user that > upgradable instances were found and please make a choice between > installing > a new instance and not installing a new instance(optional upgrade one or > more existing ones). This sounds almost like your first suggestion, but in > own dialog. This dialog comes right before feature selection, and only > thing > it might do is to unselect "Database Instance" feature in the following > dialog . Technically, it duplicates functionality of the feature selection > tree. So what... I hope it adds some clarity for the user - at least tells > the user that his existing instances *can* be upgraded. Or maybe it won't > help that much, since user never looks at the UI anyway :) (nice article > about that is here > http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/10/treating-user-myopia.html ) > > Anyway, I uploaded the newest msis to the usual place, if somebody wants to > play with it. > > Thanks, > Vladislav. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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