FYI - The Wix Toolset (3.7) still compiles msi and burn packages on XP with either the command line tools or via VS2010.
-----Original Message----- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 10:54 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Bundle creation error using FIPS Ahh, that may have already happened. I'm not sure you can use the WiX toolset to compile MSI files on Windows XP. I don't know that anyone has tried in a long time. <smile/> The code I'm talking about lives in Burn though, which ships to end users, thus (presumably) runs on Windows XP some non-trivial amount of the time. On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 10:48 AM, David G. van Hoose < david.g.vanho...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am not talking about removing XP support from the installers, but > from the WiX tools. While the numbers of end-users still using XP is > still high, the number of developers in that group is far smaller. > Frankly speaking, developers should be developing on newer platforms > and testing on XP. I agree that it would create overhead, but by > partitioning the legacy XP code using compiler preprocessor blocks > from newer code, the rest of us are freed while also making it easier > to purge the XP support when the time comes. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Mensching > Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 11:19 > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Bundle creation error using FIPS > > Creating a separate release would create even more overhead than > trying to support it now. It's hard enough to get all of our test > cases covered without creating a whole different release for it. > <smile/> > > That said, I generally agree with your statement about Windows XP > being on it *support* deathbed. Unfortunately, last numbers I saw > showed Windows XP as the second most popular operating system (after > Win7) in the world by a large margin. > > If my numbers are off, please point me at a reputable source with > better numbers and we can consider killing Windows XP... I just don't > see that happening in the next 5 years (although I'd love to be wrong). > > > On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 8:19 AM, David G. van Hoose < > david.g.vanho...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > <soapbox>Windows XP is on its deathbed, and supporting it should not > > hinder mainstream users.</soapbox> > > > > Why not release an XP build separately from the main build? > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Rob Mensching > > Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 09:15 > > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Bundle creation error using FIPS > > > > Note: IIRC, the huge issue with SHA2 is that Windows XP doesn't have > > support for it natively. We'd have a lot of unhappy people if we > > dumped Windows XP support so this is going to be harder than it should be. > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 6:52 AM, Jonathan Racine < > > jonathan.rac...@hybris.com > > > wrote: > > > > > Bug #3287 is now created regarding this issue. > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > Jonathan Racine > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Bob Arnson [mailto:b...@joyofsetup.com] > > > Sent: April-19-13 8:54 PM > > > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Bundle creation error using FIPS > > > > > > n 19-Apr-13 15:13, Jonathan Racine wrote: > > > > >From what I can get out of the Domain Policies, only the SHA-2 > > > algorithms were enabled. Official reason given is for PCI-Compliance. > > > At > > > this point would that become a feature request in order to make > > > the > brun > > > behave correctly using SHA1 or SHA2 ? > > > Please file a bug. Likely we'll have to add a feature to allow a > > different > > > hash algorithm, to be compatible with existing SHA1 hashes. > > > > > > -- > > > sig://boB > > > http://joyofsetup.com/ > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- Introducing AppDynamics Lite, a free troubleshooting tool for > Java/.NET Get 100% visibility into your production application - at no > cost. > Code-level diagnostics for performance bottlenecks with <2% overhead > Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_ap1 > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introducing AppDynamics Lite, a free troubleshooting tool for Java/.NET Get 100% visibility into your production application - at no cost. 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