Whoever said I was adding a .NET dependency solely for the sake of the installer? I create installers in a product line environment and every single core asset we have has a dependency on .NET 3.5 Sp1.
But you know what? I'm not even going to discuss this with you anymore. You are stuck in the past. The rest of the world has moved on and embraced new technologies. But be my guest, have fun with primitive technology all you want. Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me --- On Wed, 2/18/09, Richard <legal...@xmission.com> wrote: > From: Richard <legal...@xmission.com> > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Visual Dialog Development > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2009, 10:27 PM > In article > <210143.99329...@web36607.mail.mud.yahoo.com>, > Christopher Painter > <chr...@deploymentengineering.com> writes: > > > As usual, you are misquoting me Richard. > > Its not misquoting you when I quote you verbatim. > > Give me a break, get a life or both. > > >I was replying to the statement: > > Everyone reading this thread has already read your response > and the > message that generated it. You're just repeating > yourself now. > > > "An installer and it's UI should be as fast > as possible and should run on > > blank windows 2000 systems. In this way, it must not > use .Net (and Java > > and so on ...)" > > ...and for MS products that targetted such systems they > didn't > introduce a dependency on .NET *just* for UI for the > installer. > > Of course, Windows 2000 isn't supported anymore by MS > products, and > most MS products these days leverage .NET in one way or > another, so it > is not introducing a dependency on .NET to use it for the > installer > UI. > > However, the point still stands -- we are talking about not > introducing a .NET depencency where it isn't needed and > gratuitously > using .NET for the installer UI when the rest of the > application > doesn't need it is dumb. > > Dependencies are what make installers complex and difficult > to > maintain and manage. The fewer the dependencies, the > better. > -- > "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 > draft available for download > > <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> > > Legalize Adulthood! > <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, > San Francisco, CA > -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open > Sourcing the Enterprise > -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open > source participation > -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the > source code: SFAD > http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
