Re: [WiX-users] Where to start? V2 or V3?

2006-10-05 Thread Darrel Miller
Not that my opinion should carry much weight considering Rob has already voiced his opinion, but he is obligated to take a more cautious stance than the rest of us. I would move whole heartedly to V3. Just the shortfilename, longfilename stuff alone was worth the move for me. Disclaimer: I'm

Re: [WiX-users] Where to start? V2 or V3?

2006-10-05 Thread Rob Mensching
@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Where to start? V2 or V3? Not that my opinion should carry much weight considering Rob has already voiced his opinion, but he is obligated to take a more cautious stance than the rest of us. I would move whole heartedly to V3. Just the shortfilename

Re: [WiX-users] Where to start? V2 or V3?

2006-10-05 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:42 -0400 Darrel Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not that my opinion should carry much weight considering Rob has already voiced his opinion, but he is obligated to take a more cautious stance than the rest of us. I would move whole heartedly to V3. Just the

Re: [WiX-users] Where to start? V2 or V3?

2006-10-05 Thread Bob Arnson
Christer Solskogen wrote: The only problem I know of is the lacking of documentation. For instance the help file included in wix3 contains docs for wix2. The WiX.chm in the WiX v3 releases contains schema doc for WiX v3. There are other topics that refer to WiX v2, however. -- sig://boB

Re: [WiX-users] Where to start? V2 or V3?

2006-10-03 Thread Rob Mensching
This year? Stick to v2. I'm expecting there will be another bump or two in the next few months in v3 that I would not want you to go through. WiX v2 isn't as cool as WiX v3 but it will behave consistently... which is probably the most important thing for you in the next few months.

Re: [WiX-users] Where to start? V2 or V3?

2006-10-03 Thread Matthew Janulewicz
In my experience (and who's experience other than mine would I have?) v3 is stable enough to do most tasks that the average installer needs to do. Granted, most of our installers (currently in test/demo phase) copy files around, register stuff in the GAC, create a web page or a virtual directory

Re: [WiX-users] Where to start? V2 or V3?

2006-10-03 Thread Adam D
Thanks Rob and Matt, I think that gives me a better idea of where to go next - I'll probably start with V2, build a simple project, and then take a look at WixCop... with a view to moving to V3 as soon as we get a 'stable' build... I suspect that for this release, anything I do will be V2 based.