I'm a fan of WiX and InstallShield. doesn't make me too popular on
either mailing list. :-)
That said, I personally no longer attempt to encapsulate MS Sql Server
installation. It's just too complicated with too many choices and too many
ways to fail. IMO if you have a server product you should have a DBA ( or
atleast someone who stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night ) install
SQL server per the standards of your organization. If it's a client
workstation that just needs a datasource, I'd suggest there are better
alternatives.
From there you have to decide if the installer has any interaction with the
data tier or if it's all handled post installation via a first run
configuration pattern. If you go with the latter, the BA UI gets a lot
simpler. (That sexy VS BA hardly asks any questions at all. Nor does the
WiX BA.) If you go with the former, you're going to need a story for
interviewing and validation connection string information and then passing
that to the installer to execute SQL scripts and/or modify config files
with connection string.
If you dump the need for silent bullet proof and highly customized
installation of MSSQL, I think this is merely a moderately complex
installer. If you drop the installers interaction with SQLSERVER then it
becomes a simple installer. Otherwise it's highly complex. Labor
estimates depend highly on skill and experience.
Maybe one day we'll have reusable code that handles all the messy details
and snaps into a custom BA. Blair could comment on whether that is
possible.
From: Blair Murri os...@live.com
Sent: Friday, November 15, 2013 9:46 PM
To: General discussion about the WiX toolset.
wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Question re WIX other MSI installer tools...
The in-box BAs do not provide most of that experience but burn totally
supports it. All the pieces to manage mapping burn variables to MSI
properties and controlling application of each item in the chain are
clearly present.
A domain-specific UI AND domain-specific processing of gathered information
will cost you development effort no matter which underlying toolset you
choose to use.
In my opinion what you have described would be easier to implement on burn
than on IS, as the interface can be understood with some study and
experimentation and debugging, past the first bootstrap, is actually easier
than the other implementations I've seen that can approach what you
describe.
I think you are either underestimating the effort required to do what you
want with other systems, are overestimating the effort required with
burn+custom BA, or you don't quite see the difference between burn and the
stdba.
-Blair
StevenOgilvie sogil...@msn.com wrote:
Burn does NOT allow you to collect information from the user and then pass
that information to the MSI's it is a tool to allow you to install
pre-requisites and handle your software installer...
To create a user experience that collects information it would require a
CUSTOM BA...
Steve
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