I thought the content is important. the installer is technically a self-extracting ZIP file therefore I saw no problem in renaming it.
When I use 7-zip to recreate a ZIP, it is always at least 54 MB larger. And I don't see the benefit.
I thought the content is important. the installer is technically a self-extracting ZIP file therefore I saw no problem in renaming it.
I use the "scoop" package manager to install/update FreeCAD and it recently broke due to a change in the ZIP folder structure. It used to be that the portable ZIP had all the program subfolders in the root, but now the ZIP has a single "FreeCAD-portable" folder which has the subfolders within it.
Thanks for the report. Yes, this change was intentional because I got the following feedback a while ago: