From: Rony G. F. <Ron...@wu...> - 2011-09-17 15:04:45
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Hi there, the support request at <https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3396853&group_id=400586&atid=1660874> describes a use-case which could be possibly resolved in one of two ways: 1. changing the readme.txt file such, that at the top it tells the users to unzip the downloaded archive and not to try to run the zip-archive's content, if the operating system offers such an option (as this seems to not work, at least on 64-bit W7), 2. upload the Windows exe-installer files and remove the zip archives. This way after downloading a simple double-click should run the installer and the reported use-case should not be possible to occur anymore. Any thoughts, preferences ? ---rony |
From: Jean-Louis F. <jfa...@gm...> - 2011-09-17 16:01:15
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Hi Rony When I have the choice, whatever the software downloaded, I always use the zip file instead of the exe-installer. At least, I can see its contents and decide if I want to go further in the installation. But here, since the zip file contains only the .exe file, there is no added value to get a zip file, except the smaller size. I checked several applications that I installed, they all propose directly an .exe file to download (ex : VirtualBox, Python, Ruby, even ooRexx :-) Jean-Louis 2011/9/17 Rony G. Flatscher <Ron...@wu...> > ** > Hi there, > > the support request at > > <https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3396853&group_id=400586&atid=1660874><https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3396853&group_id=400586&atid=1660874>describes a use-case which could be possibly resolved in one of two ways: > > 1. changing the readme.txt file such, that at the top it tells the > users to unzip the downloaded archive and not to try to run the > zip-archive's content, if the operating system offers such an option (as > this seems to not work, at least on 64-bit W7), > 2. upload the Windows exe-installer files and remove the zip archives. > This way after downloading a simple double-click should run the installer > and the reported use-case should not be possible to occur anymore. > > Any thoughts, preferences ? > > ---rony > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA > http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy2 > _______________________________________________ > Bsf4oorexx-devel mailing list > Bsf...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bsf4oorexx-devel > > |
From: Rony G. F. <Ron...@wu...> - 2011-09-17 17:04:09
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Hi Jean-Louis, On 17.09.2011 18:01, Jean-Louis Faucher wrote: > When I have the choice, whatever the software downloaded, I always use > the zip file instead of the exe-installer. At least, I can see its > contents and decide if I want to go further in the installation. > But here, since the zip file contains only the .exe file, there is no > added value to get a zip file, except the smaller size. > I checked several applications that I installed, they all propose > directly an .exe file to download (ex : VirtualBox, Python, Ruby, even > ooRexx :-) thank you very much for this feedback! As a result (for the Windows packages) I have uploaded the exe-versions and removed the zip-versions afterwards. ---rony |