I completely agree - msi2xml and nant msi tasks are all more than sufficient, but i'm excited to see this unprecedented move towards community collaboration.
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From: Ian MacLean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Ian MacLean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: Ryan Cromwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Nant-users] Wix!!!
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 14:21:18 +0900
Note that I think the wix announcement is cool just for the fact of microsoft releasing somthing on sourceforge. If there is widespread uptake migrating the msi tasks to the wiks format might be the right move.
Ian
Ian MacLean wrote:
>Heres a response from Jayme Edwards - the original author of NAnts
>msi tasks - which actually perform in a similar manner to wix. (
>posed as a reply to the original announcement )
>
>> Wow,
>>
>>Well here we go again. As the original contributor of the MSI task
>>to NAnt's "NAntContrib" project (http://nant.sourceforge.net), I
>>knew how useful an XML representation of MSI would be and put alot
>>of work into getting these to do nested directory configurations
>>just like demonstrated in the snippet above working, and
>>automatically registering COM and .NET .dlls properly.
>>
>>Many developers in the NAnt community put alot of hours into
>>refactoring these tasks, adding MSM support, and at my employer
>>(Rockwell Software) we use these tasks to actually build some
>>product installations with a high degree of success.
>>
>>What I don't understand is why Microsoft can't put the hours it
>>obviously spent copying what's in NAnt (MSBuild) and now the
>>MSI/MSM tasks (WiX) into building some high quality addins for
>>Visual Studio .NET that just generate and edit XML adhering to the
>>NAnt MSI/MSM task schemas? I mean I actually wrote an XML Schema
>>definition for the MSI/MSM tasks specifically to make integration
>>easy, and while Microsoft have been quick to "embrace and extend"
>>even open source projects, I've yet to see them play nicely with
>>people who have taken their technology (Microsoft .NET) and embrace
>>it without having to copy, rename, and confuse efforts.
>>
>>Maybe it's just me, but I'm looking forward to the days when
>>Microsoft returns to bringing some real innovation to the table
>>like before the Java lawsuits hit.
>>
>>Bummed,
>>
>>Jayme Edwards
>>Product Architect
>>RSProduction Portal
>>Rockwell Software
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>
>Ian
>Ryan Cromwell wrote:
>
>>How exciting would an NAnt Wix task or refactoring of the
>>NAntContrib - Msi/Msm tasks be! Maybe I'll work on a transform for
>>vdproj -> Wix xml.
>>
>>http://blogs.msdn.com/robmen/archive/2004/04/05/107709.aspx
>>http://sourceforge.net/projects/wix
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