Bug #7364 Installer always 'suggests' default dir
Submitted: 16 Dec 2004 21:30 Modified: 7 Dec 2016 13:58
Reporter: Olaf van der Spek (Basic Quality Contributor) Email Updates:
Status: Won't fix Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Installing Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:* OS:Windows (Windows)
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: qc

[16 Dec 2004 21:30] Olaf van der Spek 
Description:
When you install the server (4.1.7) in for example C:\MySQL\ and then 4.1.8, it doesn't remember the old install dir and just installs automatically in the new dir.
Could this be changed so it installs to the old dir?

How to repeat:
Install
[17 Dec 2004 16:41] MySQL Verification Team 
Changed Severity to "Feature request"
[19 Jan 2006 21:49] Olaf van der Spek 
Somebody? Anybody? Please?
[21 Apr 2009 19:21] Carsten Segieth 
still valid, at least with 5.1.34, and I don't think this is a feature request:

If an update install is not able to 'read' the install path of the older install I feel this as a bug that should be solved (hopefully "soon").

It is very uncomfortable that with every update install one have to be really careful to change to the originally used install path. And now also to change the path to the data dir, if one has choosen a different one than the default.
[20 Aug 2010 12:06] Fernando Vinan-Cano 
So after nearly 6 years this still hasn't been fixed?

Doesn't anyone care that this could potentially ruin an installation because the installer is dumb and doesn't read the previous installation parameters?

Come on guys, this is a two-second fix.
[20 Aug 2010 12:10] Olaf van der Spek 
Indeed. MySQL guys, what's going on?
[7 Dec 2016 13:58] Yngve Svendsen 
Posted by developer:
 
Closing this, since the MySQL Installer for Windows has taken over from the old plain msi installer.