Re: purpose of exe?

Christian Ullrich wrote:
> * Adrian Klaver wrote:
>
>> On 04/29/2015 07:08 PM, Josh Hester wrote:
>>> Hi, can you explain the purpose of the exe wrapper around the two msi
>>> files? Will there be a move away from msi files in the future?
>
>> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/545233FC.9070502@winpg.jp
>
> That doesn't actually *explain* anything, it just states a fact with no
> rationale behind it.
>
> There are those of us who use some automated deployment method to
> install the driver; having to extract the packages from the wrapper
> first is just needless effort.
>
> Yes, in principle I can deploy the wrapper executable. Except if I want
> to apply an external transform to the package, which I do.
>
> There may actually be some software in the world where MSI simply can't
> do the job. I have a hard time believing that an ODBC driver that drops
> maybe ten files and the same number of registry keys belongs in that
> category.
>
> I have no objection to that wrapper existing, I just don't want to use
> it. Please provide the individual MSIs as well.

I agree. There's a perennial problem where software is OK for some older
version of OS, but the installer quite simply won't run on it. Adding an
extra layer is highly undesirable.

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