[tex-live] Install file of the TL should have unique name

[Zdenek Wagner]

2017-05-08 16:01 GMT+02:00 Siep Kroonenberg <siepo at cybercomm.nl>:

> On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 02:54:03PM +0200, Denis Bitouzé wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > after the following discussion:
> >
> >   ┌────
> >   │ http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2014-January/034704.html
> >   └────
> >
> > install files of the TL used to have unique names.
> >
> > But I noticed that's not the case anymore with the up to date TL 2016:
> > there are:
> >
> >   ┌────
> >   │ install-tl-windows.bat
> >   │ install-tl-windows.exe
> >   └────
> >
> > and some students of mine to who I provided this up to date TL 2016
> > didn't succeed to install it because they double-clicked on the `.exe'
> > instead of the `.bat' file.
> >
> > It would be worth to fix this for TL 2017.
>
> A better solution would be to remove install-tl-windows.exe and also
> the .zip- and .tar.gz archives from the installation media.
>
> About a month ago I used just install-tl-windows.exe for network
installation of TL 2016 and it worked. The only problem was that for the
first time the downloaded file was corrupted for unknown reason.

Zdeněk Wagner
http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml
http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz



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> Siep Kroonenberg
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