Quote - Indeed a Torrent would be the clever way of distributing something this large. But torrents unfortunately have  bad reputation.. sigh (well not totally unwarranted either)

This is true but it could be integrated into a small installer like the way game updates are handled (some MMOs do this).

My thought was to split the installer into small chunks as a .rar file.  Or even an installer that downloads those rars and then assembles it into one installer application.

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