Re: [Maria-developers] Windows test platforms

Monday 26 April 2010 11:25:53 Michael Widenius wrote:

Hi!

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"Bo" == Bo Thorsen writes:

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Bo> For building the installable packages, I intend to use XP and Visual Studio Bo> 2008.

We should look at using Visual Studio 2010 ASAP, as this is said to give significantly better performance.

The only reason I didn't choose VS2010 is that it's only beta at this moment. When it's out of beta, I agree we should use this instead. However, having a test buildbot system with the 2010 beta is probably a good idea, to get rid of compiler problems from it.

Bo> My list of systems to test the packages and do the compile + make test on Bo> would be:

Bo> XP Pro 32 bit Bo> Vista 32 bit Bo> Windows 7 64 bit Bo> Server 2008 64 bit

Bo> On XP, I'd install VC++ 2005, on the others VC++ 2008. When Visual Studio 2010 Bo> is out, I'll install that on Vista and one of the 64 bit systems.

Bo> This is four systems that does a very thin span of the incredible amount of Bo> systems done by MS. (And people say there are a lot of Linux distributions.)

Bo> Does this make sense to you? Please let me know what you think.

Sounds good.

We should probably start with trying to get packages for Windows 7, 64 bit.

I hope we can have just two packages - 32 and 64 bit - that will install on all Windows systems. There might be differences between the systems that have to be handled in the packages, but I don't want to have two packages per Windows version. That would be *really* bad. Kind regards, Bo Thorsen, Monty Program AB.