Bug #60829 5.5.11 for Windows 'crippled' ??
Submitted: 11 Apr 2011 12:24 Modified: 23 Aug 2017 8:43
Reporter: Peter Laursen (Basic Quality Contributor) Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Installing Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:5.5.11 OS:Windows (7/64)
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: qc

[11 Apr 2011 12:24] Peter Laursen
Description:
mysql-5.5.10-winx64.msi is 126.692 kB
mysql-5.5.11-winx64.msi is 29.428 kB
(ftp://ftp.easynet.be/mysql/Downloads/MySQL-5.5/)

How to repeat:
See above

Suggested fix:
Is this a new policy that from now onwards only packages what used to be named 'essentials' builds will be provided?  If so I think this is a mess when upgrading.  Files from older versions will coexist with files from newer versions.

This should absolutely not happen after a version went GA. It is a violation of you own policies in this respect. I realize that in particular tests are mostly uninteresting for Windows user (that mostly do not have a perl environment) but it is very bad timing. 

I'd prefer the full package back.  Or at least some documentation on what is omitted on Windows.

It is also very inconsistent with 5.6 (where 5.6.2 is 'full')
[11 Apr 2011 12:33] Peter Laursen
oops .. forgot to specify the OS as 'Windows'.
[11 Apr 2011 22:14] MySQL Verification Team
Thank you for the bug report.
[29 May 2011 11:59] Peter Laursen
Same situation with 5.5.12 and 5.5.13.
[9 Aug 2012 15:35] Paul Keusemann
I would like to add a "me too" to this bug/complaint.

The installation packages for Windows do not match the documentation.  What appears, by name according to the MySQL 5.5.28 documentation, to be "The Complete Package", is actually the "MySQL Installer" or what used to be called "MySQL Essentials".  This is confusing at best and more like misleading.

Where are the release notes that explain or at least document the change in packaging?

Finally, why isn't  there a link to the install documentation or at least a hint at what's actually inside the installers on the downloads page.
[23 Aug 2017 8:43] Yngve Svendsen
Closing this, since Windows packaging and documentation has been completely revised over the past few years.