The following is meeting notes from the "WiX Monthly Meeting" from 5:15 PM - 6:00 PM PST on Microsoft campus. The first meeting (last month) was where I announced that the internal Microsoft mailing list for WiX was going to be deprecated. Now (as you may have noticed) all communication happens on the wix-users mailing list.
See the "Discussion" section below to note that I'm going to be looking into other forums for the meeting (and possibly other times) to get more people involved in the "Monthly Meeting". --- Roundtable --- * Peter Marcu - starting to get more involved (focusing on advanced needs for VS), such as CustomActions and Media table improvements. Peter Marcu is a new name on the WiX toolset but hopefully you'll be seeing more of him in the not so distant future. * Joe Abbott - still making the builds go * Bob Arnson - Bob has just moved (woohoo!) and now has 3 of his computers back up and running (so hopefully will make forward progress again). Going to finish "new UI" and start extension to make the new UI easier to use. Will also take a couple interesting bugs in Compiler. Also looking at ShellExecute CustomAction (nice immediate CustomAction). Then back into the extensions. * Justin Rockwood - Votive 3 was released. Seems to be mostly okay. Few bugs but nothing blocking. Going to add $(var.Project.Item) support back like Votive 2 had. That should get Votive 3 totally caught up and beyond Votive 2. * Rob Mensching - Focusing on setup.exe and will slowly be digesting Derek's patching tools. --- Discussion --- * Some questions about UI, in particular branching in the wizard mode. Bob spoke about "floating Publish elements" available in WiX v3 to make it slightly easier, but still difficult. Bob said he was happy to sit down and talk about it since it is a deep topic. Rob mentioned that at a certain point, you'll exit to a external UI handler and the setup.exe work is intended to make it easier. Bob also noted that sometimes with really complicated UI it may mean you are trying to do too much in your UI. * Rob noted that attendance is really low (two people not working on WiX toolset) and physical meeting doesn't work for those people in other cities/states/countries. Justin mentioned that a conference call may get more people. Then Justin suggested maybe doing an open chat on MSDN. That sounds interesting. Rob will ask around and see what is available. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
