Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] Self-extracting installer

[Greg C. <gch...@sb...>]

On 2008-04-13 18:32Z, Aaron W. LaFramboise wrote:
> 
> It will be some time before we generate a 4.3 installer, and I'd like to 
> encourage wide testing before that point.
[...]
> I would like non-expert users to be able to test 4.3 also.  I expect 
> expert users would have no use for a self-extractor.

Okay, that makes sense.

Let me suggest using a suffix that indicates compression type, e.g.:
  gcc-1.2.3-xxx-bin.tar.7z.exe
instead of:
  gcc-1.2.3-xxx-bin.exe
Then the name indicates what programs to extract it with:
  7z x some_archive.tar.7z.exe
  tar -xvf some_archive.tar
for anyone who doesn't want to just execute it, for reasons like you
mentioned earlier:

On 2008-04-05 22:02Z, Aaron W. LaFramboise wrote:
|
| I'm not sure if self-extracting is really a good idea though, because a
| lot of people distrust these sorts of things, and it would only be of
| use to Windows users--but do non-Windows users really need to be
| extracting Windows binaries that often?