Re: No more zip file for 4.6?

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

Hello

Sorry I have written the previous post without understanding what you would like to say.

I can prepare zip style distribution. Is it required for 4.6-rc1?
If so, I will prepare it and upload to the my web site.

For the 4.6.0 release, I will also prepare zip style binary.

Regards

Tatsuro

--- On Fri, 2012/2/17, Tatsuro MATSUOKA  wrote:

> 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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