On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 6:54 PM Marc Schwartz wrote: > I am on macOS primarily, albeit, I have run both Windows and Linux routinely > in years past.
With all due respect, then you have no business in this thread. > That being said, these days, I do run Windows 10 under a Parallels VM on > macOS, as I have a single commercial application that I need to run for > clients now and then, and it sadly only runs on a real Windows install (e.g. > not with Wine). Further demonstrating my point. You run Windows in a virtual machine, meaning even if you encountered some bad installer, you could just revert to a snapshot or similar. > To your points: > > [bunch of links] I am sorry if I miscommunicated, I didnt and dont wish to be convinced about how well behaved R installer is. I wish for R to offer zip builds. Many other programming languages do: - http://strawberryperl.com/releases.html - https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet-core/2.2 - https://golang.org/dl - https://nim-lang.org/install_windows.html - https://python.org/downloads/release/python-373 - https://windows.php.net/download As I see it, the question isnt "should R offer zip builds", its "why isnt R offering zip builds". > Unless you can make the case to them to expend the finite resources that they > have to support this as part of each version release process, in light of the > prior discussions, it is not clear that this appears to be a priority. Thats the point of my original post. If they choose to continue with only EXE, I will just keep using other programming languages. So you could see how it might be in R interest to offer this, as no zip builds might be one of the reasons people avoid the language. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel