Since online installers use HTTP, and the user got the installer off HTTP, what 
would a proxy server change?

--
Best regards,
Alex Ionescu

On 2011-06-03, at 12:33 PM, Kamil Hornicek wrote:

> I didn't want to spam this discussion but I have to.. What every other 
> software company also does is refusing to believe someone might be behind a 
> proxy server. If you go this way, please make sure the installer doesn't need 
> a direct connection. Also online installers are generally a major pain in the 
> ass if you don't provide an offline installer too.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: Alex Ionescu
> To: ReactOS Development List
> Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 5:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [ros-dev] 1294 [dreimer] Fix clean for cmake trees. ...
> 
> 
> Why separate installers for x64/ARM?
> 
> 
> Just do what every software company this side of the century does: a 400kb 
> installer which lets you select the packages you want, and downloads them.
> 
> 
> --
> Best regards,
> Alex Ionescu
> 
> 
> On 2011-06-03, at 11:38 AM, Zachary Gorden wrote:
> 
> 
> Spoke with Amine and Daniel.  I've agreed to the lesser evil of bundling the 
> FULL cmake.  Reasons are if we want the BE to be flexible enough to be used 
> for more than just building ROS, we can't gimp cmake with the belief that no 
> one will need the things we didn't include.  This is again on Windows.  I 
> remain uninvolved with decisions about the Linux BE.
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Colin Finck <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Timo Kreuzer <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> My vote on this:
> CMake: bundle it, optional on installation
> x64/arm: create individual installers
> 
> 
> 
> * CMake: bundle it, go for the (minimal) version without an installer. It's 
> nothing "exotic" to install after all, just put it together with the other 
> utilities in RosBE.
> 
> * x64/arm: If build tool sizes are staying like this, create individual 
> installers. Just for testing, I'll try an x86/x64 multilib build of Binutils 
> and GCC though, would be nice to know how much smaller it is compared to 
> separate x86 and x64 compilers.
> 
> So in general, I agree with Timo :-)
> 
> 
> - Colin
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