Windows DMD installer

[Nick Sabalausky]

"BCS" <ao at pathlink.com> wrote in message 
news:78ccfa2d42b718cbc79c3bb7b06a at news.digitalmars.com...
> Reply to Ary,
>
>>>> But for that the only thing he need to do is to tell us URLs for the
>>>> latests zip files to download.
>>>>
>>> Oh, it's one of the kind of installer I have no use for. Sorry missed
>>> that bit.
>>>
>> Why not?
>>
>
> I have no like for installers that don't contain (in the installer I 
> download) the data they are supposed to install (I'll use them if there is 
> no other way to install the program). I've already stated my reasons 
> several times in this thread, but in short: I want an installer that has 
> no dependencies (particularly no net dependencies) other than things like 
> Windows (tm). I want to be able to archive it and know it will install the 
> same version later, no matter what the rest of the world does. Most of the 
> other uses being tossed about for an installer I would rather do via 
> something else (like SVN).
>

Yea, this is why I'm convinced that, at least at some point, we'll want to 
have both kinds available, because there are a lot of people on both sides 
of that fence (I'm somewhere in between, fwiw).