MySQL Bugs: #74768: MYSQL installation has several flaws

Bug #74768	MYSQL installation has several flaws
Submitted:	10 Nov 2014 15:05	Modified:	24 Jul 2015 0:03
Reporter:	Mario Enrique Zapata	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server: Installing	Severity:	S2 (Serious)
Version:	6.2.3.12312	OS:	Windows (Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate Service Pack 1)
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any
Tags:	WBBugReporter

Description:
MYSQL notifier 1.1.6 not recognized mysql services:

The mysql notifier can't strat the service, it says isn't listed, but mysql notifier can stop or restart the service, this is a bug that the new release was intended to correct, but still.

MYSQL for Excel:

This application try to install a versión of microsoft visual studio 2010 tools for office runtime (x64) but there is a newest version updated by Windows and the installer can't resolve the issue and stop the installation.  if you download the application separately it will Works.

MYSQL connectors:

None of the connecters are installed, you need to download separately and reinstall all of this.

How to repeat:
Use the current installation download, any option, over a server o develpoment machine option.

curent log after third reinstall

Attachment: wb.log (application/octet-stream, text), 20.36 KiB.

Notifier

Attachment: bug74768.png (image/png, text), 71.81 KiB.

Thank you for the bug report. The Connectors are installed at once when doing a fresh install, fails when adding.

Just one more nail to the coffin of the "MySQL Installer" and the whole concept of writing an installer in .NET.

(I am a large-scale supplier of such nails myself! Let us get the coffin closed and the culprit burried ASAP) 

-- Peter
-- not a MySQL/Oracle erson

Posted by developer:
 
Thanks for the report

It will be notified the teams for MySQL for Excel and Notifier due to this are specific issues for those products, it is probably needed to update your manifest to list the latest products (like the connectors) in the installer, or change the filter in the select products screen

any additional findings will be updated

Posted by developer:
 
The problem reported with MySQL Notifier is a bug of that specific product.
The problem reported with the Connectors can't be reproduced, and needs a separate bug report.

This bug was renamed to treat the problem found with the Excel prerequisite, that is not detecting correctly VSTO 2012.

Posted by developer:
 
Fixed as of the upcoming MySQL Installer 1.4.9 release, and here's the changelog entry:

The Visual Studio Tools for Office 2010 Runtime requirement was clarified
for MySQL for Excel. This requirement is different than Office Developer Tools
for Visual Studio, which is not a substitute.

Also, the MySQL for Excel installation documentation was updated. The related requirement
now reads as follows:

Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime, 
and MySQL Installer may install this for you.

Note: This requirement is different than Office 
Developer Tools for Visual Studio, which is not 
a substitute.

Thank you for the bug report.