FWIW, innoextract extracts the contents of the installer just fine. Iñaki
On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 at 17:40, Steven Penny <svnp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 -- Iñaki Úcar ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel