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This has nothing to do with the code itself, and anything to do with how it is managed. Take a look here:

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The weekly drop is an MSI. I don't like MSI. They taint my system, put things in places I don't want, and in general annoys me.

Okay, so let us just grab the source directly, right? That is what I tend to do anyway.

Oh, I forgot, there isn't any source repository available.

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A zip file is the least I would expect.

Print | posted on Monday, March 24, 2008 7:31 PM

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 re: Unity Annoyances 3/24/2008 7:40 PM dru

+100 to that idea.

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 re: Unity Annoyances 3/24/2008 8:14 PM Neil

Not only that, but what is 'Marsh (sic.) 12'?

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# re: Unity Annoyances 3/24/2008 8:38 PM Mario A Chavez

I'm with you on this, I hate these pesky msi files, just publish a simple and plain old good zip

# re: Unity Annoyances 3/24/2008 8:54 PM Manuel Abadia

With 7-zip (http://www.7-zip.org/) you can see what is inside a MSI file and extract the data that is inside it without having to run the MSI file.

The only downside of this is that the you may have to manually rename files and/or do other tasks like register DLLs, create VDIRs etc that are performed by the MSI.

 re: Unity Annoyances 3/24/2008 10:58 PM Steve

This has long annoyed me too, +1 for 7zip and Fezzik + gvim for renaming the files =)

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 re: Unity Annoyances 3/24/2008 11:21 PM The Other Steve

At least you get the source code. A lot of Microsoft stuff they've put up on codeplex.com are just links to msi installs with no source which is even more annoying.

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# re: Unity Annoyances 3/24/2008 11:33 PM Ayende Rahien

That is in violation of the CodePlex terms of service.
Please complain to the CodePlex about it

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# re: Unity Annoyances 3/25/2008 7:57 PM Glenn Block

Thansk Oren, this is a good idea. We'll look into it.

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