RE: [Visualpython-users] Re: download components

[David S. <dsc...@cm...>]

> Bruce Sherwood wrote:
>
> >Ihor Rokach asked for zip files for experienced users; I'm hoping
> >that it won't actually be necessary to maintain two kinds of files.
> >Is there any issue here other than download time?
>
> 1. There are a LOT of countries with non-free Internet and transmission
> rate < 1Kb/sec :-(
>
> 2. Some people are using the newest version of the Numeric from CVS.
> They will not be happy if your installation overwrites their files. Of
> course, Inno Setup scripts could be configured to avoid such a problem.
> However, nobody knows what is inside the 'black-box'-like installation
> file before the installation :-).

3.  ZIP files can be useful to people on other platforms, who might intend
to take source or Python files and leave the rest.

However, it's somewhat unfair to ask Bruce to maintain two separate
installation methods for the sake of the minority of users who fall into one
of these cases.  Perhaps someone else will step up (e.g. to write scripts to
compile .ZIP files automatically)?

Dave