I don't agree that installation and configuration are automatically distinct
nor do I agree that configuration is generally per-user. In fact, 12 years of
development, setup authoring and enterprise engineering has convinced me that
it's generally per-machine. Even Windows Installer TAO seems to concede that
per-user stories are a pain to support.
Btw, have you noticed that storing data in the registry isn't exactly a first
class citizen in .NET? XML is where it's at, and after 8 years of .NET, MSI
still can't do that naively either. The `equally simple declarative pattern`
that you mention is becoming useless in the managed code world that MSI seems
to desperately try to ignore.
Bob Arnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Christopher Painter wrote:
> I'm afraid you lost me there. Just about everything inside the MSI
> engine can be one outside of MSI.
We were discussing simple property persistence. MSI has an equally
simple declarative pattern: Write it to the registry during
installation, read it back via AppSearch; if it's not there, it hasn't
been written yet but that's OK because MSI does the right thing during
AppSearch. Purely declarative, no custom actions.
> I know everyone likes to say configuration data is a pain.... but
> imagine how painless it would be if MSI/MMC/AD/GPO had this type of
> built-in story and ISV's were supporting it as part of their
> deployment story.
Configuration is distinct from installation. Most configuration data
needs to be per-user which doesn't fit the typical per-machine/first-run
installation model of MSI.
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