Apparently, the spirit of negativism is great about this proposal.
It's based on our experiences. It's not against the idea itself. But about the requirements it would "burden" on some of us.
Let me tell you. I am (among other things) the person who builds the installers for Windows. I do that in my personal spare time.
I joined the team for other reasons, building installers is not my idea of having a good time. But someone has to do it....
I have no problem if there is an all-include installer (in addition to what we have).
But:
- I have neither time nor interest to build it.
- I have no time, to manage the bug reports about 3rd party components that will then end up on our bug tracker
(And I can tell you neither has anyone else in the team)
So for that reason I will not build it. And for that reason no one else in the team will....
So we do need someone who does.
But I am willing to make a peace offering:
- I will run the build script (Windows) for such an installer, and upload it (I cant guarantee if it will be the main download site, or an alternative side).
That way people would have an installer build from a trusted source.
But I will only do that, if there is a person who does all the other work.
- provide the build script (it must run to completion without interaction)
- test it before I run it, to make sure there are no build errors
- test the resulting installer.
- answer any relevant bug in our bugtracker
.....
This is what I personally am willing to do, and the requirements for me doing so. After all, its my personal spare time.
I would still have to run it past the rest of the team. But at least an upload to a separate sourceforge page should be possible.