Distribute Windows ZIP archives in addition to installers
Operating System: Windows
Description of the feature
It would be useful for those who want to perform system integration manually to provide ZIP archives containing everything required to use GIMP. Ideally, these should be available in 64-bit and 32-bit (preferably separately as to keep download sizes down). This way, experienced users can install GIMP without running an installer that requires administrator privileges.
Note that I'm not asking for "true" portable ZIP archives here – user data would be saved to the default directories when using GIMP from an extracted ZIP archive.
Related to #1395 (closed), which was closed as the original issue was fixed.
Use cases
The Scoop package installer would benefit greatly from those ZIP archives being available, as it would make unattended installations and upgrades possible (no UAC prompt would have to appear anymore).