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Having spent a frustrating afternoon trying to install XAMPP v1.7 I checked into the source of the problem. In doing so, I noticed the following URL's which appear to cast doubt on the coding techniques used in some of the most important open source code that we rely on.
http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2008/11/oops-we-did-it-again-mysql-51-released.html
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=36149
I particularly like the last comment of the second URL: - "btw: What was the reason for not patching (MySQL) 5.x branches? " All the more so since the comment is only two days old and both Sun and MySQL.com are touting MySQL 5.1 as the best thing since sliced bread – see below.