[tex-live] Install file of the TL should have unique name

[Siep Kroonenberg]

On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 04:17:48PM +0200, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
> 2017-05-08 16:01 GMT+02:00 Siep Kroonenberg <siepo at cybercomm.nl>:
> 
> > On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 02:54:03PM +0200, Denis Bitouzé wrote:
> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > > after the following discussion:
> > >
> > >   ┌────
> > >   │ http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2014-January/034704.html
> > >   └────
> > >
> > > install files of the TL used to have unique names.
> > >
> > > But I noticed that's not the case anymore with the up to date TL 2016:
> > > there are:
> > >
> > >   ┌────
> > >   │ install-tl-windows.bat
> > >   │ install-tl-windows.exe
> > >   └────
> > >
> > > and some students of mine to who I provided this up to date TL 2016
> > > didn't succeed to install it because they double-clicked on the `.exe'
> > > instead of the `.bat' file.
> > >
> > > It would be worth to fix this for TL 2017.
> >
> > A better solution would be to remove install-tl-windows.exe and also
> > the .zip- and .tar.gz archives from the installation media.
> >
> > About a month ago I used just install-tl-windows.exe for network
> installation of TL 2016 and it worked. The only problem was that for the
> first time the downloaded file was corrupted for unknown reason.

That is the intended use of this file. But when you already have
local media with an unpacked installer, then the packed installers,
including install-tl-windows.exe, just get in the way.

-- 
Siep Kroonenberg