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Windows download single exe #299

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mhdawson opened this issue Jan 7, 2016 · 4 comments
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Windows download single exe #299

mhdawson opened this issue Jan 7, 2016 · 4 comments
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mhdawson commented Jan 7, 2016

I'm wondering what the history is behind the non-installer package for Windows being a single Node exe versus a zip that includes npm etc. The tar.gz for other platforms includes a more complete install so I was wondering why the difference ?

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rvagg commented Jan 7, 2016

before my time, my guess is that it dates back to pre-installer days, perhaps even pre-bundled-npm days

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perhaps even pre-bundled-npm days

^ That.

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So I guess the question is whether it still makes sense to provide just the exe or whether a zip would make more sense ?

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rvagg commented Jan 13, 2016

Seems to be in wide use: https://github.com/coreybutler/nvm-windows/blob/master/src/nvm.go#L333-L348

node.lib is used by node-gyp too

using the download stats, for Q4 2015:

$ cat nodejs.org-access.log.20151* | awk '/\.msi,v/ { msi++ } /\.exe,v/ { exe++ } END { printf "msi=%s, exe=%s, %s%\n", msi, exe, (exe / (exe + msi)) * 100 }'
msi=4765206, exe=890241, 15.7413%

That's surprisingly big. I don't think we can do anything here without more information on how and why it's being used.

joaocgreis pushed a commit to JaneaSystems/node that referenced this issue May 13, 2016
Add a step in vcbuild.bat to create a minimal package including node
and npm that can be used as an alternative to the MSI.

Compress the node.pdb file as zip and 7z.

All files are uploaded as part of build-release.

Fixes: nodejs/build#299
Fixes: nodejs#5696
Fishrock123 pushed a commit to nodejs/node that referenced this issue Jun 1, 2016
Add a step in vcbuild.bat to create a minimal package including node
and npm that can be used as an alternative to the MSI.

Compress the node.pdb file as zip and 7z.

All files are uploaded as part of build-release.

Reviewed-By: Joao Reis <reis@janeasystems.com>
Reviewed-By: Rod Vagg <rod@vagg.org>
Reviewed-By: Alexis Campailla <orangemocha@nodejs.org>
PR-URL: #5995
Fixes: nodejs/build#299
Fixes: #5696
rvagg pushed a commit to nodejs/node that referenced this issue Jun 2, 2016
Add a step in vcbuild.bat to create a minimal package including node
and npm that can be used as an alternative to the MSI.

Compress the node.pdb file as zip and 7z.

All files are uploaded as part of build-release.

Reviewed-By: Joao Reis <reis@janeasystems.com>
Reviewed-By: Rod Vagg <rod@vagg.org>
Reviewed-By: Alexis Campailla <orangemocha@nodejs.org>
PR-URL: #5995
Fixes: nodejs/build#299
Fixes: #5696
joaocgreis pushed a commit to JaneaSystems/node that referenced this issue Jul 5, 2016
Add a step in vcbuild.bat to create a minimal package including node
and npm that can be used as an alternative to the MSI.

Compress the node.pdb file as zip and 7z.

All files are uploaded as part of build-release.

Reviewed-By: Joao Reis <reis@janeasystems.com>
Reviewed-By: Rod Vagg <rod@vagg.org>
Reviewed-By: Alexis Campailla <orangemocha@nodejs.org>
PR-URL: nodejs#5995
Fixes: nodejs/build#299
Fixes: nodejs#5696
MylesBorins pushed a commit to nodejs/node that referenced this issue Jul 8, 2016
Add a step in vcbuild.bat to create a minimal package including node
and npm that can be used as an alternative to the MSI.

Compress the node.pdb file as zip and 7z.

All files are uploaded as part of build-release.

Reviewed-By: Joao Reis <reis@janeasystems.com>
Reviewed-By: Rod Vagg <rod@vagg.org>
Reviewed-By: Alexis Campailla <orangemocha@nodejs.org>
PR-URL: #5995
Fixes: nodejs/build#299
Fixes: #5696
MylesBorins pushed a commit to nodejs/node that referenced this issue Jul 11, 2016
Add a step in vcbuild.bat to create a minimal package including node
and npm that can be used as an alternative to the MSI.

Compress the node.pdb file as zip and 7z.

All files are uploaded as part of build-release.

Reviewed-By: Joao Reis <reis@janeasystems.com>
Reviewed-By: Rod Vagg <rod@vagg.org>
Reviewed-By: Alexis Campailla <orangemocha@nodejs.org>
PR-URL: #5995
Fixes: nodejs/build#299
Fixes: #5696
MylesBorins pushed a commit to nodejs/node that referenced this issue Jul 12, 2016
Add a step in vcbuild.bat to create a minimal package including node
and npm that can be used as an alternative to the MSI.

Compress the node.pdb file as zip and 7z.

All files are uploaded as part of build-release.

Reviewed-By: Joao Reis <reis@janeasystems.com>
Reviewed-By: Rod Vagg <rod@vagg.org>
Reviewed-By: Alexis Campailla <orangemocha@nodejs.org>
PR-URL: #5995
Fixes: nodejs/build#299
Fixes: #5696
MylesBorins pushed a commit to nodejs/node that referenced this issue Jul 14, 2016
Add a step in vcbuild.bat to create a minimal package including node
and npm that can be used as an alternative to the MSI.

Compress the node.pdb file as zip and 7z.

All files are uploaded as part of build-release.

Reviewed-By: Joao Reis <reis@janeasystems.com>
Reviewed-By: Rod Vagg <rod@vagg.org>
Reviewed-By: Alexis Campailla <orangemocha@nodejs.org>
PR-URL: #5995
Fixes: nodejs/build#299
Fixes: #5696
MylesBorins pushed a commit to nodejs/node that referenced this issue Jul 14, 2016
Add a step in vcbuild.bat to create a minimal package including node
and npm that can be used as an alternative to the MSI.

Compress the node.pdb file as zip and 7z.

All files are uploaded as part of build-release.

Reviewed-By: Joao Reis <reis@janeasystems.com>
Reviewed-By: Rod Vagg <rod@vagg.org>
Reviewed-By: Alexis Campailla <orangemocha@nodejs.org>
PR-URL: #5995
Fixes: nodejs/build#299
Fixes: #5696
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