Gomez Henri at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Frankly, Apache (HTTPd) went on for ages without installers, and it
>> just went great... I don't see the need for it.
>
> On Unixes world Apache is easy to build and install but it's not so
> easy under Windows Boxes. More Windows users want to have such installer
> stuff and if you want to see Windows users (and newbies) you really need
> that.
You were talking about a Java installer running on any platform... I like
what Remy did for Win32... But I'm saying that it would be pointless to have
one for all other UNIXes systems...
An RPM for Linux, PACKAGE for Solaris, and SETUP for OS/X would be more than
enough, otherwise, sources.
Pier (who doesn't give a damn shit to installers in Unix)