Exactly. I see no reason why is has to be installer OR zip. Most open source projects provide *both* and leave it up to the downloaders.
(Also, I don’t believe Roman was ever advocating for *not* providing a zip.)
How does creating the installer work? Is it be a script that just bundles the build/zip file contents etc? If so, I see no reason why calling a script can’t be added to the current Windows build process that already generates a zip …
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On Nov 10, 2015, at 11:53 AM, pd-dev-request@lists.iem.at wrote:
From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans@at.or.at mailto:hans@at.or.at> Date: November 10, 2015 at 8:03:59 AM MST To: pd-dev@lists.iem.at mailto:pd-dev@lists.iem.at Subject: Re: [PD-dev] Windows installer for Pd
IOhannes m zmoelnig:
On 2015-11-10 11:29, Roman Haefeli wrote:
I tried to do all the work and would welcome some feedback.
i think it's one of the beautiful sides of Pd that you do *not* need an installer (even on windows!) and can run it from any media you like (even if it's a read-only CD).
probably the best thing would be to have a menu-entry (maybe hidden in the "preferences"), where people could enable things like file-association and startup menus with the click of a button).
A .zip for Windows is very useful. But that is a separate question. Windows users expect installers. And making an installer does not prevent also a .zip file from being made and used. Pd-extended has both for Windows.
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