On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 10:56:35AM +0800, Andy Sy wrote: > Michael Chaney wrote: > > >Remember, too, that Microsoft has been using InstallShield for their own > >installations for years. Without knowing the specifics, I'm guessing > >that they wanted to kill off the InstallShield people (perhaps they > >refused a buyout) and Microsoft realized that a FLOSS project > >replicating their functionality was the best way to injure/kill them. > > It would really depend on how good this WiX is though... after all > there are several pretty cool free / open source windows installer > projects out there and they don't seem to have hurt InstallShield much.
Yeah, and exactly how many of those ship with Visual Studio? See the difference? Michael -- Michael Darrin Chaney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.michaelchaney.com/ -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
