Does FuTTY need an installer?

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Does FuTTY need an installer?

Right now the only executable I compile and publish is putty.exe (renamed to 
FuTTY-XXXX-XX-XX.exe)  
I could also compile/publish the other PuTTY related executables.. 
(puttytel.exe, pageant.exe, puttygen.exe, pscp.exe, psftp.exe, plink.exe) 
..although the differences from their official versions are almost 
insignificant.

And if an installer is used, which installer should be used?

Everyone is welcome to respond to this "issue".

Original issue reported on code.google.com by FireEgl on 11 Jun 2011 at 2:28

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Yes! I came here to ask for this.

One of my gimmicks with PuTTy is that it is a standalone application - sure, 
it's handy, but where do you put it? Documents folder? Not a document. Desktop? 
Don't use icons on my desktop, and if I did, it would be shortcuts.

Right now I have a folder named Apps in my user directory which isn't that 
great, especially when I for some reason want to start it from the search bar 
in the start menu, I'll have to wait that much longer for it to search through 
indexed files, if it's at all indexed.

An installer would solve all this.

IMHO which installer you use does not matter as long as it runs on most Windows 
releases. I'd go for NSIS myself.

Original comment by m...@maero.dk on 26 Aug 2011 at 5:58

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As long as we get to have the standalone version too. It's nice for people that 
aren't allowed to install anything on their PC's.

Original comment by fsm...@gmail.com on 21 Jun 2012 at 7:17

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Please do consider compiling/publishing pageant.exe as this also contains 
session-from-file functionality in JK's patch.

Thanks.

Original comment by baze...@gmail.com on 11 Aug 2012 at 12:54

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I would appreciate an installer package, especially if it installed the whole 
PuTTY suite (even if unchanged from the original)

Original comment by richard....@gmail.com on 2 May 2014 at 5:35