Windows download single exe #299

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1. rvagg commented on Jan 7, 2016

   

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   before my time, my guess is that it dates back to pre-installer days, perhaps even pre-bundled-npm days
2. bnoordhuis commented on Jan 7, 2016

   

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   perhaps even pre-bundled-npm days

   ^ That.
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4. mhdawson commented on Jan 13, 2016

   

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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 ?
5. rvagg commented on Jan 13, 2016

   

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   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.
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