On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Curt Hibbs wrote:

>> Hi Simon,
>> 
>> I was suggesting two installers - one for those who just want an easy
>> no-fuss one-click binary installer with everything on (the majority)
>> and one for extension developers who need a reference environment
>> against which to build extensions. You don't need the MinGW + MSYS
>> environment bundled - you can get that off the net - it's the patches
>> and tweaks, etc. that have been used to create the one-click binary
>> version that you'd want in the developer version (i.e. a way to
>> reproduce exactly a copy of Curt's development environment :). But if
>> you did bundle MinGW + MSYS, it would add around 77MB.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Sean
>> 
>> 
> At 77MB, it would have to be an optional add-on.
>
> For those intrepid souls who want to build  the  one-click installer distro
> from source, it is itself an open source project, so that is entirely
> possible.
>
> Curt

i love this idea.

-a
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