I suggest doing like many other, have one standard 400k installer but one fully packad exe as well, for the ones having troubble.
/Jaix Bly "ReactOS Development List" <[email protected]> wrote on Fri, June 3rd, 2011, 7:44 PM: > just 1 more thing... > > if you choose to download modules optionally, please dont forget about users > behind a proxy which requires authentication.... (im one of them at work :) > ) > > On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Alex Ionescu <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Ros-dev mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Ros-dev mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Ros-dev mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Ros-dev mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ros-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > Ros-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev _______________________________________________ Ros-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
