UI customization is an area that is easy to discount the effort involved but
hard to get right. We are open, however, to ideas on making it better.
Especially if those ideas include code that work with the engine.
The extended BA was an excellent (IMHO) improvement in increasing flexibility
in the UI and that was one of the factors that went into it being incorporated
into 3.8. If someone contributes a "silent BA" as an additional option to the
toolset I don't think there would be any objections to it being added.
> From: afor...@cmu.edu
> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 14:51:11 -0400
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] [SPAM] Re: Bootstrapper -- Can it be UI-less?
>
> Fair enough. I didn't intend for this to turn into a discussion about
> open-source development and certainly not a criticism of WiX or the devs. I
> had merely noticed a spike in UI-customisation requests on the mailing list
> and I was trying to be helpful by pointing it out and inquiring if there's
> some reason things are the way they are, and/or if anyone is looking into it.
>
> It seems like this is the answer.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Blair Murri [mailto:os...@live.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 14:36
> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] [SPAM] Re: Bootstrapper -- Can it be UI-less?
>
> I think Edwin stated it very well. The exact same thing applies to all (there
> are several) open source projects I have associated with.
>
> > Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 17:24:33 -0700
> > From: 0ptikgh...@gmx.us
> > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] [SPAM] Re: Bootstrapper -- Can it be UI-less?
> >
> > On 9/18/13 1:57 PM, Alain Forget wrote:
> > > Gaining knowledge on how code works is fine and has value, but at the end
> > > of the day, people have primary tasks they're trying to get done and
> > > can't always commit the time or effort into tangential secondary tasks.
> >
> > I think it is clear that the WiX developers are working on what they
> > believe to be the most important primary tasks as they relate to WiX
> > even though WiX development is clearly a secondary task for most of them.
> >
> > Generally speaking if something hasn't been done in an open source
> > project, the reason usually is that it simply hasn't been important
> > enough for anybody to work on it, yet. If you have an itch, then
> > volunteer your time and expertise and scratch it.
> >
> >
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