[Ecls-list] Windows self-installer

[Anton Vodonosov]

06.01.11, 01:04, "Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll" <juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com>:
> 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.
> 

Ah, yes, having binaries would be great. If installer is no more difficult that just an archive, then OK.

Best regards,
- Anton