download with .7z ext cannot open

[jog1418]

Admit to being novice. Want to download Codelite for 32 bit win 10 os. download goes okay but no .exe file only 10.0.4.7z which I cannot open .. it looks like pdf file because Adobe keeps tryin to open but fails .. confused ???

[eranif]

You need to install this http://www.7-zip.org/download.html and it will open it

[AJenbo]

Just a note, but on my Windows 10 machine they don't open in 7zip, what you need to do is right click the file and select "extract here"

@eranif why not enable zlma compression in the iss file and then offer the .exe directly? It should give the same benefit and make it more user friendly. Unless it's because of issues with hosting/dl exe?

[eranif]

@eranif why not enable zlma compression in the iss file and then offer the .exe directly?

This is what I did couple of releases ago, however, some anti-virus companies marked the site as dangerous cause it was offering .exe files for download
This is why I had to zip the software in a free for all compressor (i.e. 7-zip)

[AJenbo]

Would it be helpful if I looked in to packaging it as an .msi instead?

I know that there are some tools that will wrap the .exe (generated with iss) in a .msi, not sure if you would be ok with that or prefere a rewrite with a different packaging tool?

[eranif]

I found the current solution (7z+iss) acceptable.
Eran