Offer zip builds

[ghost]

If you go here:

https://rakudo.org/files

You see MSI installer for Windows. This contrasts with other programming languages that offer both an executable installer and ZIP files that can be extracted and run. For example Go:

https://golang.org/dl

and Nim:

https://nim-lang.org/install_windows.html

Python:

https://python.org/downloads/release/python-373

and C#:

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet-core/2.2

PHP:

https://windows.php.net/download

Perl:

http://strawberryperl.com/releases.html

[ghost]

Workaround:

lessmsi x rakudo-star-x86_64 (JIT).msi

[hankache]

@cup Thank you for your feedback. We'll make sure to offer zip builds for MS going forward.

[patrickbkr]

I am already working on this. See rakudo#3049. I am currently aiming for a rakudo+zef build.

Edit: To clarify a bit: I'm working on making it possible to create binary packages in general. Not specifically on Rakudo Star. There are some technical difficulties to sort out before it's technically possible to provide usable zips (see rakudo#3031). Once those are sorted out we can start work on packaging. I'm mostly interested in providing smaller bundles containing only rakudo and zef.

@hankache If you work on bundling Rakudo Star as zips, that would be great!

See also MoarVM#1124.

[AntonOks]

closing as it's stone-age old an no one seems to work on it...