question about installation

for installation on a windows machine, http://psychtoolbox.org/download.html#Windows has a 9-step procedure (“1. Download subversion, 2…”).

“Alternate download as a zip file.” This alternative option simply requires a mouse click (plus, I guess, inclusion of Psychtoolbox in MATLAB’s path).

Surely the alternative option is much simpler. It takes roughly 60 seconds with my current wifi connection. Why would anyone bother with subversion and all that?

I agree the zip file approach is easier, and probably cleaner (without those .svn folders), while the subversion approach makes the future update faster (it will only download updated files).