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diff --git a/doc/bugs/Adding_zip_or_7z_or_tar_archive_builds_for_windows/comment_1_70480ffd417788f18cd75a9b625ecf3b._comment b/doc/bugs/Adding_zip_or_7z_or_tar_archive_builds_for_windows/comment_1_70480ffd417788f18cd75a9b625ecf3b._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..3bd7381e1 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/Adding_zip_or_7z_or_tar_archive_builds_for_windows/comment_1_70480ffd417788f18cd75a9b625ecf3b._comment @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="joey" + subject="""comment 1""" + date="2016-11-16T18:41:25Z" + content=""" +It would be helpful to have more details, such as an example of software +distributed for windows that way, or documentation of how such an archive +is used on windows. + +The git-annex Windows installer is a exe file that uses the NullSoft +installation system. As far as I know that's pretty common in the Windows +world. + +I don't see any point in zipping up the single exe. It would be possible to +make a zip containing all the files that instlling the exe installs. But, +the installation process has to integrate git-annex with git, it installs +menu items, etc. A zip file would not be able to handle that integration. +So its use seems limited to me. +"""]] diff --git a/doc/bugs/Adding_zip_or_7z_or_tar_archive_builds_for_windows/comment_2_afa6a131999feda67876859cd85ebcfc._comment b/doc/bugs/Adding_zip_or_7z_or_tar_archive_builds_for_windows/comment_2_afa6a131999feda67876859cd85ebcfc._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b0db54479 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/Adding_zip_or_7z_or_tar_archive_builds_for_windows/comment_2_afa6a131999feda67876859cd85ebcfc._comment @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="luckcolorsgoo@ab4f3c1c44a7dbcbcb9d9a29315b59ad524ceaaa" + nickname="luckcolorsgoo" + avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/ddff84cd2a97252a05cccb4bc5010448" + subject="comment 2" + date="2016-11-16T22:56:46Z" + content=""" +In my case i was going to make a script for automatically downloading and updating an git portbale / git annex instance, by first fetching git portbale and then downloading the gitannex exe. + +So yeah it's more reliable to extract an archive rather than trying to extract the setup without executing it. +That's why i'm asking for this feature. :) + + + +"""]] |