Description:
Some comments from testing out the installers, some very minor
and really just opinions
- If a server is already installed, it seems like it is possible to add two
MySQL 5 entries to the "Add or Remove Programs" (might be as it
should, only mentioning it).
- Installing a new version with a new root password when an old is
running, gives no warning, only a very hard to interpret message at
the end of the installation, that the security handling failed.
- If a server is already running and it was an essential, installing
the larger package, when directed by the installer to the configurator,
it will direct the configurator to the essential, not the new one.
- When moving from the installer to the the configurator dialog isn't
centered requiring the user to move it on a smaller screen.
- The help text for the "Enable Strict Mode", shouldn't it warn that
old MySQL programs might not work with it?
- In the Administrator, if the "Stop Server" button was a tiny bit moved
to the left, it would not be cut off on a 800x600 screen.
- The Administrator exit button says "Close", but this might be that
I don't understand the Windows user interface guidelines.
- Also might be from me not understanding the UI guidelines, when
searching in the Query Browser, there is no "Search forward" and
no "Search backward". Not needed, but there is no message that
a second hit on the search button redo the search from the beginning.
- When installing the "pro" package, and no previous installation, and
no running 'mysqld', I will still get the message below. "pro-gpl"
doesn't have this problem
The security settings could not be applied.
Error Nr. 1045.
Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: :NO)
- Just something that is not clear to me from the "Remove" option,
if the data directory will be removed or not? From what I can see,
it is not removed, does this mean it is "safe" to do uninstall without
loosing valuable data? (I know, users should have backup.....)
And this will be the same from "Add or Remove Programs", that
it will not remove data, or a new install after the "Remove" will
not overwrite the data? Same for system tables? I guess I'm asking
for a "Help" button :-)
How to repeat:
Install the server from different Windows MySQL installers