I'm in their side on this and they're on mine! If you distribute a. This confuses some wanna-be-sys-admins and manager types, and will then lead to them abandoning otherwise perfectly good software.
With a. Also realize that any. So, any legit software maker trying to distribute a file, has to deal with one of these two issues. My take - get over it - Windows pseudo-security nonsense prompts are an attempt to protect end-users, and inadvertently makes your job have a few extra steps. File size was reduced by 22KB. It's about the same with solarwinds apps.
Most ALL installers nowadays have very good compression, and for a good reason. Thing is, when you unzip, Windows yells at you about signed EXEs anyway, so you still get that "hey, is this legit? It just doesn't seem to matter that it's zipped or not, you still get dumb security warnings that should deter wanna-be's.
Sure, I can get over it, but I can tell you right now, I've skipped over zipped installers because I thot they were stupid for doing that, making me jump thru hoops. I've been downloading zipped EXE's and EXE installers for 20 years and just thot "Get over it, that's just how different companies are.
You're not gonna change anything by yelling about it. But it's for godsakes. I had to say something. And who uses IE anymore? Kinda sad tho! At least Spiceworks is doing it right using EXEs instead of zip.
If I made a pros and cons list, the cons for using Zip for that would be much longer than pros. But you're right, why bother when I keep replying to people on here like I did with you and I keep getting push back from completely different people?
Not one person, not even from Spiceworks, has chimed in to agree. That's cool. If Spiceworks is doing it so wrong and not another person out of a million on here thinks it should be EXE's, why is Spiceworks still doing it that way? Why aren't they getting the wanna-be's emailing or posting on here saying they can't use Spiceworks because it looks like malware?
My point is that if large companies who are both smart Spiceworks and Solarwinds use different methods and no one seems to have a problem with either both have millions of users , then why not distribute in a way that's easy for most users?
I sure wish Spiceworks would tell us why they chose exe's instead of the "much better" zip format, because according to their own users, Spiceworks is doing it wrong.
Microsoft uses mostly EXE installers too. For the Mac agent, we're going to use a zip. This is because the download changes the permissions of the installer script, and so the install fails for users. Unfortunately there's enough users out there that don't know they need to change permissions on this so they can run it, and it becomes a support issue.
Thus, for that, we're resorting to a. That makes sense on the Mac side Jackie. I think we're more concerned about the Windows side. I'd love to hear something that makes sense to me today.
I can't explain why we started doing it - it's always been that way. But for me, it seems more typical of a windows download for an installer to be an executable versus a zip you just have to unpack. One less step. Thanks Schmoo! MS zips their ISOs?
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