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 …


On Nov 10, 2015, at 11:53 AM, pd-dev-request@lists.iem.at wrote:

From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans@at.or.at>
Date: November 10, 2015 at 8:03:59 AM MST
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.

.hc