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Re: [eclipse-dev] Installer for Windows version of Eclipse
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On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 05:38:27PM +0100, J. Henning Schwentner wrote:
> Dear Eclipse developers,
>
> AFAIK there is a zip-archive of the Windows version of Eclipse, but no
> installer (like a setup.exe) like it is usual for applications on the
> Windows platform. I think such installer could be really nice especially
> for Eclipse because Eclipse has so much options to install (JDT, Example
> Plugins etc.).
>
> Is there a specific (philosphical?) reason why there is no Windows
> installer or is it just that there is no person that created one yet? If
> the latter is the case, maybe I should create an installer?
An installer would be interesting if it could install the packages
directly from the net. Otherwise, it would just blow up the size
of the base file by another 2-4MB.
Also, using ZIP gives the users a good feeling: They *know* that
Eclipse doesn't install any DLLs or other things in their system
(because there is no installer involved).
> If I am right, there is no RPM version for Linux either? Should it be
> created as well?
Same here. I would admit that having an RPM sounds nice (it would be able
to check the dependencies) but then, different linux distributions call
their RPM different (so there was gtk+_new and gtk+2 and gtk2+, IIRC)
which makes dependencies useless unless you have one RPM per linux dist.
This looks like a big waste of disk space on the Eclipse server in my
eyes.
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