Twenty years maintaining the WiX Toolset
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Twenty years maintaining the WiX Toolset
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Re: Twenty years maintaining the WiX Toolset
#2For those like me (I never used Windows) who do not know WiX; https://wixtoolset.org/.
Re: Twenty years maintaining the WiX Toolset
#3For those like me (I never used Windows) who do not know WiX; https://wixtoolset.org/ .
lol, from the title i was absolutely convinced that he was talking about https://www.wix.com/
Re: Twenty years maintaining the WiX Toolset
#4Re: Twenty years maintaining the WiX Toolset
#5When Microsoft launched the (let's face it, baroque) complexity that is Windows Installer (MSI), we didn't get the WiX Toolset, instead we got an expensive proprietary profiling tool for capturing before/after snapshots, and an entry-level version bundled on the Windows 2000 CD which didn't really solve anybody's problem. No suprises then that the MSI format didn't immediately take over, and Microsoft would presume all the way to Intune that their customers were deploying MSI packages when mostly we weren't.
I always wondered what would have happened if the WiX Toolset had been available from the start, and I like to compare the more organic success of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) being more open and hackable as an example. I guess the time just wasn't right.
Re: Twenty years maintaining the WiX Toolset
#6Great product. Hostile maintainer.
Re: Twenty years maintaining the WiX Toolset
#7Great product. Hostile maintainer.
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Re: Twenty years maintaining the WiX Toolset
#8When Microsoft launched the (let's face it, baroque) complexity that is Windows Installer (MSI), we didn't get the WiX Toolset, instead we got an expensive proprietary profiling tool for capturing before/after snapshots, and an entry-level version bundled on the Windows 2000 CD which didn't really solve anybody's problem. No suprises then that the MSI format didn't immediately take over, and Microsoft would presume a…
I really tried to use msi back when it appeared but it wouldn't work in certain versions of Windows without installing something else before. I can't remember the details but it was self defeating.
Re: Twenty years maintaining the WiX Toolset
#9Great product. Hostile maintainer.
Exactly my experience as well.