Feature request: Windows ZIP Distribution

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello Sigbjorn,

Wednesday, May 18, 2005, 8:38:55 PM, you wrote:

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

nice bug! :)

you can cut installer size in 1.5-2 times by repacking it with another
compressor - LZMA. i tried this on the your 6.4 distribution and whole
installed directory was packed down to 26 megs

to get this work you can either switch to Nullsoft installer, which
has support for LZMA, or create self-extracting module with help of
7-zip (www.7-zip.org) anf include this self-extractor in your installer

in order to test lzma compression, download abovementioned 7-zip and
try it on some directory with the following cmdline:

7z a archive -r -mx9

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 Bulat                            mailto:bulatz at HotPOP.com