Re: No more zip file for 4.6?

[Tatsuro M. <tma...@ya...>]

Hello

gp46rc1-win32-setup.exe is an installer. You can install gnuplot to any directory in which you would like to place gnuplot.

BTW, there are need to old zip style distribution, it could be additional distribution style.
I would like to also prepare zip style distribution for Windows binary.

Regards

Tatsuro 


--- On Fri, 2012/2/17, Tait wrote:

> 
> I went to try out 4.6rc today, but the only binary file available is a
> *.exe. What happened to the *.zip file (which I prefer)?
> 
> Downloading an executable means the user must run it blindly. A zip file
> has the advantage that it is data, not an executable. A trusted unzip
> program can interpret and open the zip file, at least giving the user the
> chance to inspect the contents before executing code. For a program like
> gnuplot that doesn't actually need to execute code to install, this is
> unnecessary. I know "nobody" verifies MD5/SHA/signatures, but we don't
> provide any chance for verification, and given SourceForge compromises
> in the past, this makes me uncomfortable.
> 
> Second, the executable can't even be used unless the user is (logged in
> as) an administrator, which is also unnecessary and risky. Users who are
> not administrators can't even reasonably use gnuplot on Windows anymore.
> (I don't think expecting them to compile it from source, with all the
> dependencies, is reasonable.)
> 
> Can we bring the zip file back, at least as an additional download option,
> please?
> 
> 
> 
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