[tex-live] [Fwd: Re: Could LZMA compression be combined with SFX format ?]

[Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard]

Philip TAYLOR a écrit :
> It is not a "need"; it is a suggestion.  As has been
> frequently pointed out, Windows users like life to be
> made simple;

I don't want to start again a troll, but just for the record, Unix users
too. They just don't always agree about which kind of simplicity matters
most :-)

> for them, a self-unpacking installer is
> ideal (hence the success of commercial offerings such
> as InstallShield in the Windows world).
> 
I agree on this point, but as I already said, I thinks it is relevant
only for the networks installer. The iso way won't be a
"point-and-click" way to install anyway, since you'll always need to
mount or burn the image after uncompressing it.

So, I'll stop here this discussion about self-extraction as far as the
ISO image is concerned, since it's a minor point IMO and we already
spend enough time discussing it without immediate solution.

OTOH, if you have serious hints about how to make a point-and-click
network install (just skipping the step "unzipping install-tl.zip and
findind install-tl.bat inside" and going straight to "running
install-tl.bat", I'd be interested to hear about it. (I agree with you
that there are little (from a power user's point of view) points that
can greatly change the ease of use for an average user and that we
should try to improve there.)

Manuel.