Feature request: Windows ZIP Distribution

[Sigbjorn Finne]

One e-mail regarding this would do.. :)

The 6.4 installer has a UI bug that may prevent you from using
it on a box where you don't have admin privs. Try starting up the installer,
hit Next, followed by Back. That should bring up a dialog letting you choose
whether to perform a user or machine wide installation. Select the former 
and
proceed as before. Hopefully that does it.

Distributing a .zip wouldn't be a big deal, just want to make sure it is 
solving
a real problem.

--sigbjorn

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Brian Smith
To: glasgow-haskell-bugs at haskell.org
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 08:57
Subject: Feature request: Windows ZIP Distribution


Hi,

I think it would be convenient for some users (including me at this 
particular moment) if the Windows binary distribution of GHC was available 
as a ZIP file. My laptop died and I am using a shared computer with the 
Windows Installer disabled, thus I cannot use the MSI distribution. Maybe 
other people have similar situations. Note that ZIP files (unlike TAR.GZ 
files) can be unzipped in Windows XP without any third-party tools.

Thanks,
Brian