Did you test the installer on another computer to make sure the installer doesn't secretly depend on a large data file on your computer? I think that is what people were talking about in an earlier discussion.
Also, happy birthday, Ray! --David On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 1:36 PM, Ray Donnelly <[email protected]> wrote: > I built my own test installers and they are 27 mb and they do work fine. I > guess they are being compressed better by the qt installer framework. > > The ones on msys2.org do seem broken though. > > On Sat, 30 Jul 2016 21:03 David Grayson, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Where did you guys get that version of the installer? >> >> If you go to http://msys2.github.io/ today, you get the 20160205 >> version, which should work. >> >> This issue is also being discussed on GitHub: >> >> https://github.com/Alexpux/MSYS2-packages/issues/657 >> >> --David >> >> On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 11:19 AM, Jan Niklas Hasse <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > On Sat, 30 Jul 2016, at 15:23, Andrew Lowe wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I'm in the process of doing a fresh install of msys2. I've >> >> downloaded >> >> the 64bit version, msys2-x86_64-20160719.exe, and attempted to run it. >> >> Nothing happens. Even if I start up a cmd shell and run it from the >> >> command line, nothing happens, just straight to a new line in the >> >> shell. >> >> >> >> I've noticed that the download is 27.5MB whilst the *.tar.xz is >> >> 47.0MB >> >> and previous *.exe's have usually been larger than the corresponding >> >> *.tar.xz. Is the current version dodgy/corrupted in some way or has the >> >> packaging of the *.exe changed? >> >> >> >> Thoughts? >> >> Andrew >> > >> > I'm running into the same problem with the current installer. >> > >> > >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Msys2-users mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/msys2-users >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ >> Msys2-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/msys2-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Msys2-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/msys2-users
