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On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 11:15 AM, John H Bergman (XPedient) < john.berg...@xpdnt.com> wrote: > I may have some time later this weekend to take a swing at it; is there > any documentation around that describes how to setup an environment to > build (and maybe test) with? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] > Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2013 11:38 AM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] [SPAM] Re: Weekly releases > > Yes. Getting into Votive can be daunting. I'm not much help because I > basically know nothing about Votive, I've never worked on it (except to fix > build breaks due to the crazy InternalsVisibleTo attributes I wish weren't > there). > > That's why I suggested people could help in other areas. If there were > volunteers helping to fix every single other bug *except* Votive stuff then > we'd be in a much better place. Bob calls it pretty straight in his blog > post: > > http://www.joyofsetup.com/2013/09/13/getting-from-here-to-there-for-wix-v3-8/- > "There are no code pixies". > > Anyway, my fundamental point is: We will make progress. However, if you're > not helping to fix issues, regularly pinging about progress isn't going to > taken kindly. > PS: I hope the underlying message isn't lost at the end of this thread. > I'll probably need to distill it down to a blog post. Again, thank you to > all of you who have contributed here by answering questions, sending good > bug reports, and, best of all, sending bug fixes and generally helping > improve the WiX toolset. You guys are great. Thanks. > On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Christopher Painter <chr...@iswix.com > >wrote: > > > > > Rob, > > > > What's the LOE for this effort? I have experience creating > > installers that register project and item templates as well as > > tweaking project templates. I've done a little bit of AddOn work but > not much. The whole > > EnvDTE / VS SDK seemed really complicated to me. Is it just a few > things > > that need to be tweaked here and there or is it a lot more? > > > > I'd love to help, I just don't know if I could handle it. In this > small > > community, I'm not sure how many people could. If we only had Justin > back > > or DevDiv contributing so it could be built in I guess that ship has > > sailed. > > > > For everyone else, my advice would be to always keep your .NET > > projects and WiX projects in different solutions so you can port one > > to the next release and keep the other on an old but tried and true > > platform. That's how I roll. > > > > Chris > > > > ---------------------------------------- > > From: "Rob Mensching" <r...@robmensching.com> > > Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 6:20 PM > > To: "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." > > <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] [SPAM] Re: Weekly releases > > > > BTW, Alex, this is like the 4th time you've asked for VS2013 support > > in Votive. I *highly* recommend you jump in and help write the code to > > add the support or do *something* to take some burden off the people > > who volunteer time on the WiX toolset before asking again. > > > > I say this because it's around the 2nd time of asking volunteers to do > > work for you without offering to help out in anyway that your requests > > actually start to *discourage* volunteers from working on the feature > > for you. If the feature gets done it's often in spite of repeated > > requests, not because of them. <smile/> > > > > PS: I know I went off on a rant about this same topic a week or so ago > > so I apologize to those of you that read the list regularly. To those > > of you that regularly answer questions here or write code/fix bugs and > > generally help make the WiX toolset better, thank you. > > > > On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Rob Mensching <r...@robmensching.com> > > wrote: > > > > > It's pretty well laid out here: http://www.joyofsetup.com/ > > > 2013/09/13/getting-from-here-to-there-for-wix-v3-8/ > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Ivanoff, Alex > > <alex.ivan...@shavlik.com>wrote: > > > > > >> Do you have an ETA for VS 2013 support? > > >> > > >> > > >> -----Original Message----- > > >> From: Hoover, Jacob [mailto:jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com] > > >> Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 10:46 > > >> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > > >> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] [SPAM] Re: Weekly releases > > >> > > >> 2013 support is on the list, but hasn't been completed. > > >> > > >> -----Original Message----- > > >> From: Albert van Peppen [mailto:alb...@insad.nl] > > >> Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 10:43 AM > > >> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > > >> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] [SPAM] Re: Weekly releases > > >> > > >> Mainly waiting for VS2013 support.. But I guess that comes later ;) > > >> > > >> Also to update my archive ;) > > >> > > >> Best regards, > > >> > > >> Albert van Peppen > > >> ** WiX Releases Archive - All WiX releases since WiX 2.0.5213.0 > > (January > > >> 2008) at http://madbutcher.dyndns.org/snippets/wix/ > > >> > > >> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > > >> Van: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] > > >> Verzonden: 25 September 2013 17:03 > > >> Aan: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > > >> Onderwerp: [WiX-users] [SPAM] Re: Weekly releases > > >> > > >> Yeah. There were no changes until late last week. There will be a > > >> new build soon. Were you waiting for those couple changes? > > >> > > >> > > >> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 1:15 AM, Albert van Peppen > > >> <alb...@insad.nl> > > >> wrote: > > >> > > >> > Hmm, the latest release is still dated August 26, 2013 (WiX > > 3.8.826.0) > > >> > > > >> > Best regards, > > >> > > > >> > Albert van Peppen > > >> > > > >> > ** WiX Releases Archive - All WiX releases since WiX 2.0.5213.0 > > >> > (January > > >> > 2008) at http://madbutcher.dyndns.org/snippets/wix/ > > >> > > > >> > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > > >> > Van: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] > > >> > Verzonden: 25 September 2013 08:33 > > >> > Aan: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > > >> > Onderwerp: Re: [WiX-users] Weekly releases > > >> > > > >> > They should be back now. > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 10:01 PM, Ivanoff, Alex > > >> > <alex.ivan...@shavlik.com > > >> > >wrote: > > >> > > > >> > > When will weekly releases be back? > > >> > > > > >> > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >> > > -- > > >> > > -------- October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel > > >> > > webinars can help you accelerate application performance. > > >> > > Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. 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