1236682 - Documentation for installing MySQL on Windows is incorrect

Status: NEW

(Bugzilla :: Documentation, defect)

Description

[aux1]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/47.0.2526.73 Safari/537.36 OPR/34.0.2036.25

Steps to reproduce:

Under "Installing / Windows" it says "Download the MySQL 32-bit or 64-bit MSI installer from the MySQL website (~28 MB)."
It's not 28 MB - but more importantly:
"It's ok to select a Typical MySQL install (the default)." There is no such thing. Default is for "developers" which requires installing lot's of stuff BZ does not need.

Comment 1

[Frédéric Buclin]

There is no need to specify the size of the installer, I agree.

The installer changed a bit, and we indeed want the "developers" option most of the time. But this shouldn't be specified in our documentation either. The installer is clear enough.

Comment 2

[aux1]

I suggest the developers option is inappropriate for those who just want to use BZ and have no interest in doing MySQL developments. It forces one to down load and install a bunch of irrelevant stuff. I don't agree the installer is clear once one abandons the developer option. Do we need client or server or both to run BZ - I certainly have no idea! And the last option is a disaster to the uninitiated without specific instructions. Maybe this is all why my trial installation is not working!!

Comment 3

[Frédéric Buclin]

(In reply to aux1 from comment #2)
> I suggest the developers option is inappropriate for those who just want to
> use BZ and have no interest in doing MySQL developments. It forces one to
> down load and install a bunch of irrelevant stuff.

I don't know which irrelevant stuff you are talking about, but this option is the best for installing Bugzilla. And yes, you want both a DB server and client.

Comment 4

[aux1]

I admit I am only guessing from the names, so after this I will shut up and simply take your advice!
But do I really need: 
Connector/Python
Connector/C++
connector/NET
MySQL workbench
MySQL for Excel
MySQL for VisualStudio

If I do, maybe that's why my install failed?