1. Hopefully the "too many web sites" are really just: http://wixtoolset.org, http://wix.sourceforge.net and http://wix.codeplex.com. If there are others that are confusing, I'd love to know them.
The http://wixtoolset.org and http://wix.sourceforge.net need to merge into one (http://wixtoolset.org ultimately). There have been a number of hiccups getting that done. I hope it is pretty clear on http://wix.codeplex.comthat that project just holds the source code and downloads and points to http://wixtoolset.org. The rest is caught up in a very slow migration *away* from SourceForge. It's slow to unwind because there are so many processes (many of them built many years ago on demand with bailing twine and bubble gum <sigh/>) still pointing to SF. Finally, getting search engines to make the leap with us is also something I'm very conscious of and that is making me doubly cautions (aka: slow). 2. There is a notable user-experience gap between .vdproj and .wixproj today. The WiX toolset today is designed to provide full access to the Windows Installer and scale from the smallest projects to the largest projects. You've probably noticed by now that providing a high-level abstraction of the Windows Installer that makes it easy to drag and drop your way into an installation package has not been delivered. It's not even been attempted by the WiX toolset. Should it? Sure but there were many other goals that we focused on instead. 3. As noted, you definitely found a bug in the documentation. Also, the WiX.chm is intended to be the reference documentation. It has a bit of an introduction but it's primary purpose (and bulk of the documentation) is to be close at hand offline reference to quickly look stuff up. If you're looking for long treatsies on understandig the WiX toolset the Tutorial and Book are available. Although they usually lag the project a bit because it takes time to organize all the information in a logical flow. <smile/> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 9:46 AM, David Lowndes <dav...@mvps.org> wrote: > >The official website: http://wixtoolset.org > < > > There are too many WiX web sites - when floundering I didn't know which one > to look at next. :) > > Even the official site is a bit confusing in that the front page recent > news > implies the May 28 RC version is the latest and greatest, but the "See the > latest releases" link takes you to newer ones with the recommendation > "Please upgrade often (we recommend at least monthly)." > > >Also, what sort of framework are you looking for? > > I'm coming from having managed adequately with the old (now removed) VS > deployment project to install desktop Windows applications, so the normal > things that did - install EXEs and documentation files, registry keys, > links > to installed files, with a basic installer UI for license agreement, target > folder, etc. (which I now know WiX provides for). > > >We don't *purposefully* make WiX toolset hard to learn. > > Good :) > > > I'm a little surprised that you didn't find the Tutorial and Book links. > Is there something that could be improved to help you find more of the > resources that are online? > > After having downloaded and installed the product, I naturally used the > documentation that was installed in preference to anything online on the > assumption that the product and its supplied documentation were somewhat in > step with each other. > > Dave > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Live Security Virtual Conference > Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and > threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions > will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware > threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
