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>  The reason we didn't use shar, Pavel, is that we are shipping a binary.
>  If we used shar that would increase the size of the image that you download
>  and we wanted downloads to be fast.  As it is, I think it's a couple of MB.

I don't like the binary installer that much too.

Why don't you ship a tarball with a install script within the tarball
(like vmware does for example)?  That would make downloads even smaller
for people with bzip2 installed as you can easily provide both .tar.gz
and .tar.bz2 ...

  Gerd

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