[Ecls-list] Windows self-installer

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Anton Vodonosov <avodonosov at yandex.ru>wrote:

> It's only my opinion, I can't say for all Windows user, but I personally
> prefer just a .zip or .tgz archive.
> Installer doesn't make too much sense for me, and if there would be both
> installer and .zip available, I would choze .zip.
>

Doing one or the other does not make a difference. I was in general
reluctant to distribute binaries for other reasons: difficult to assert the
quality of it, variety of possible builds, etc.


> What I mean, If other Wiindows users have the same opinion, you may save
> some efforts.
>

The distribution of binaries is motivated by a general complaint of Windows
users that ECL does not provide self-installing executables and it is very
difficult to get running -- requires msys, mingw, or msvc, or something like
that.

Juanjo

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