Comment #3 on issue 725 by gerard.lledo: One install packet, with all dependencies inside
http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/issues/detail?id=725
The problem with Windows and OSX is that they don't provide standard tools to do what apt-get does :). Most of Windows users in our project don't use robot on Windows, I'd say because it's painful to install and setup: they VPN to a Linux machine where they run robot/ride (a pretty old one, iirc).
Having one package containing everything would be pretty complicated and we needed to update the package whenever we make new release of any project. I think having an installer that can download and install (and possibly update) needed packages would be better.
That's great for Windows and OSX, where they don't have package managers, but I don't think Linux users like the idea of application developers reinventing apt-get :)
