Well said other then I don't agree that InstallShield is the reason people don't want to write installs. ( Although this seems to be supported by tweats and blogs that I read. ) I just can't buy it based on my experience using the tool for the last 14 years. Maybe I'm just hard headed enough to look past the tools faults.
----- Original Message ---- From: Nick Ball <nick.b...@grantadesign.com> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Fri, September 3, 2010 9:41:58 AM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrapping and Burn dB is right; it is a management problem. I'm the lead developer for the product I'm involved in (BTW - for both the software AND the installation). We used Wise for many, many years until it got so creaky that I had to replace it - and WiX was the obvious choice. The problem I had is that management were very reluctant for me to spend the time getting up to speed with WiX. Setup is just copying a few files right? How hard can it be?!? In reality we have many different configurations of the product, all of which must product a nice simple setup.msi. WiX is a great skill to have, particularly if you are producing any kind of shrink-wrapped software. I suspect that the pain of doing anything complicated in Installshield or Wise in the past has put developers well and truly off writing installations. Even I refused to do it for a couple of years - until WiX came along and changed that. -Nick ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
