I once asked a question on StackOverflow and never really got an answer.... for various MSFT packages there is usually a 'fwlink' URL for web download. Are these documented anywhere? Can they be counted on in the future? This is a critical building block for community bootstrapper definitions.
--- 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 From: Rob Mensching <[email protected]> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 1:03 AM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Community package definitions We'll definitely want to look at the GenerateBootstrapper package definitions and see how much we can borrow/steal. On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Dan Puza <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there a community location where "standard" package definitions are > publicly available in one common repository? If not, that would seem like a > good idea, so that each of us individually are not all reinventing the > wheel. > > For example, I just made a separate post asking about problems I'm having > bootstrapping Windows Installer 4.5 and SQL Server 2008. I wouldn't wish > the trial and error pain and time on anybody duplicating the same effort. > That doesn't seem like it should be necessary. Someone figures it out once > and that's it, everyone benefits. > > This would be similar to the MSBUILD GenerateBootstrapper package > definitions included with Visual Studio and Windows SDK. BTW, are there > plans to include support for those (already available) SDK package > definitions in Burn, similar to MsiPackage and ExePackage? Or, could it > possibly already be in there but I'm just not seeing it (I don't think it > is)? > > Dan > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. > Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security > threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes > sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > -- virtually, Rob Mensching - http://RobMensching.com LLC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
