Why is the windows runtime/sdk only provided as .exe

[Kevin Rushforth]

Oh, maybe we don't actually release the SDK on the public web page 
either (I knew we didn't release the runtime as a zip since we don't 
even generate it internally).

-- Kevin


Tom Schindl wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
>
> Well maybe I'm blind but for win32 the there is NO zip available from
> this page [1].
>
> The only thing available currently as a zip is the OS-X SDK version
> which misses the win32 native libs not? I'll file a JIRA.
>
> [1]http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javafx/downloads/devpreview-1429449.html
>
>
> Am 04.01.12 17:22, schrieb Kevin Rushforth:
>   
>> Good question. The SDK is available as both an installer and a zip, and
>> we could consider make the runtime available as a zip file as well, so
>> please file a JIRA feature request for this.
>>
>> As for your other question, it is not currently possible to have 2.0.2
>> and 2.1 instaled side-by-side.
>>
>> -- Kevin
>>
>>
>> Tom Schindl wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Now that since 2.0.2 (and also 2.1) are redistributeable it might make
>>> sense to provide them also as simple ZIP-Files.
>>>
>>> I find it odd that if I want to package JavaFX with my product that I
>>> first have to install something only my system, navigate to the install
>>> dir and copy over the stuff my own project directory.
>>>
>>> Is it BTW possible to have 2.1 and 2.0.2 installed next to each other? I
>>> guess not which makes it hard to test with both versions on the same
>>> system, which would be made much more easy if provided as simple
>>> ZIP-Files.
>>>
>>> Would you mind providing JavaFX 2.1 binaries (and maybe also > 2.0.2) as
>>> a simple zip-File like you do it with 2.1 OS-X ones?
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>
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