Hi Martijn,
Thanks for report, we'll go through things you listed.
Regards,
Alexey Kovyazin
IBSurgeon
Hi,
Download beta 1 on Win32.
1) installer usability failure
- cannot start the installer with a Firebird service (1.5 & 2.5)
running, even though I’d like to install as a separate instance
- a warning would be fine, but even if it’s Firebird 3 running, it
should be possible to install as an additional instance
2) the installer warning about Firebird 2.5
- why can’t I do a normal installation because 2.5 is already
installed? This was the message I got:
--8<--
Pre-installation analysis indicates that 1 existing Firebird or
Interbase version has been found.Firebird 2.5.2.26540 (Win32) Full
installation of Classic Server and development tools. (Installation
appears to be correct.) If you continue with this installation
Firebird will be installed but not configured. You will have to
complete installation manually. Do you want to CANCEL this installation?
--8<--
3) Installer ReadMe:
--8<--
Before installation
-------------------
It is recommended that you UNINSTALL all previous
versions of Firebird or InterBase before installing
this package. It is especially important to verify that
fbclient.dll and gds32.dll are removed from <system32>.
--8<--
What now? Same issue as above: multiple instances is supported, so why
this warning?
4) Installation folder:
Default folder selected was this:
C:\Program Files\Firebird\Firebird_3_0
This is an existing Fb 3 folder. When I click “Browse”, somehow it
selects:
C:\Program Files\Firebird
The edit box above the treeview lists the full path, but if I expand
and select my Firebird 3 folder, it insists on concatenating
“Firebird_3_0”, so I end up with:
C:\Program Files\Firebird\Firebird_3_0\Firebird_3_0
5) Including the drivers: good! Smile
Although I would say that “including source” should be unchecked by
default for the –> normal server <- install.
6) ODBC?
- After installation, it asks you to open the ODBC Driver folder. Is
the ODBC driver installed or isn’t it? This is unclear to me.
Apparently, this only installs the ODBC installer? Why not execute
that as well?
7) SYSDBA
The installer creates SYSDBA (yay!), could a custom password entry box
be added for this?
-> After I uninstalled Fb 3, I noticed that when using the installer
again, a custom password CAN be entered. Why and how is this
difference caused?
8) Uninstaller
- it’s possible to run the Uninstaller, while Firebird is running
Starting command line:
"C:\Program Files\Firebird\Firebird_3_0\firebird.exe" -a -i -p 3054 -m
- the installer then finishes with “Firebird is uninstalled
succesfully”, which is rubbish, as most file still exists in the
installation folder!
- the installer also told me “Succes”, when files got locked in
another way
I removed the file & folder manually, for some reason, when installing
some files had “read only” set to true, but the installer
“success”-message was obviously wrong.
- installed again, into a new folder, uninstalled again, after
uninstall, there’s lots of files left.
- files ending with .url are registered as shared files? Yet, they’re
in the Fb 3 folder and can be removed safely without prompting the
user, can’t they?
Hope this helps.
With regards,
Martijn Tonies
Upscene Productions
http://www.upscene.com
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