Re: [WiX-users] Convincing customer to use WiX toolset - is it enterprise ready?
1. Office 2007 that just reached RTM this month used the WiX v2 toolset to create their MSI files. WiX v2 is very much ready for commercial products. Bob and I were just discussing the over status v2 project last night. We both agreed that the core toolset (that thing that builds MSI files) was probably ready to be declared stable and released. The IIS CustomActions, however, seem to have a few issues that probably need to get addressed though. My new job should provide me a little more opportunity to get back into the CustomActions so I'll try to see how well they really are working. Then we'll have a serious discussion here about officially marking WiX v2 "done". 2. There is a block of documentation in the WiX.chm file that should be in every binaries.zip. You can also go to http://wix.sourceforge.net and see the online manual and the online tutorial there. We can always use more documentation but there is definitely documentation available. 3. The online tutorial has an example of some UI. The WiX toolset also has some built in UI that provides a good starting point (works well for most people, especially if you replace the bitmaps with your own graphics). Of course, you can create completely custom UI and display whatever you want to display. All of this information can be found by starting at http://wix.sourceforge.net. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jacek Blaszczynski Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 02:51 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Convincing customer to use WiX toolset - is it enterprise ready? Hello! I am in process of trying to convince customer who looks for enterprise grade InstallShield installation package improvements. I have proposed to replace it with WiX based installer and pointed him to WiX sourceforge.net site and got a very fast answer with several doubts: 1. " The sourceforge site indicates this is still in beta, so it is probally not ready for use for a commercial project which we need to distribute to enterprise customers. ... " 2. " I have downloaded the Wix package to take a look, but I could not find any documentation for it, and it does not appear to be a complete package. ... " 3. " If I could find a working example of it to see how the user interface looks during an install I might consider using it, but I would perfer either InstallShield or Wise. ... " Obviosuly I could respond to all this and other serius doubts raised by customer myself but I thought that this process may be of interest to WiX community and I may receive good support in finding arguments in favor of WiX. The most important thing is to show enterprise level installation packages created with WiX - please point me to most prominent installation packages created using WiX toolset which at the best should be available for download and testing. Please indicate as well: 1) links to the latest but still complete packages (i.e. not requiring hunting for dependencies, docs or WiX tools) working out of box - I almost always had a lot problems using packages downloaded from sourceforge. 2) links to authoritative sites describing WiX package 3) links to most recent documetation available online. Regards Jacek - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users - 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
Re: [WiX-users] Convincing customer to use WiX toolset - is it enterprise ready?
MySQL switched to MSI and built it using WiX last year (I believe). http://dev.mysql.com/doc/administrator/en/ch02s02s01.html --John On 11/6/06, Jacek Blaszczynski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello!I am in process of trying to convince customer who looks for enterprisegrade InstallShield installation package improvements. I have proposed to replace it with WiX based installer and pointed him to WiX sourceforge.netsite and got a very fast answer with several doubts:1. " The sourceforge site indicates this is still in beta, so it is probally not ready for use for a commercial project which we need todistribute to enterprise customers. ... "2. " I have downloaded the Wix package to take a look, but I could notfind any documentation for it, and it does not appear to be a complete package. ... "3. " If I could find a working example of it to see how the userinterface looks during an install I might consider using it, but I wouldperfer either InstallShield or Wise. ... " Obviosuly I could respond to all this and other serius doubts raised bycustomer myself but I thought that this process may be of interest to WiXcommunity and I may receive good support in finding arguments in favor of WiX.The most important thing is to show enterprise level installation packagescreated with WiX - please point me to most prominent installation packagescreated using WiX toolset which at the best should be available for download and testing.Please indicate as well:1) links to the latest but still complete packages (i.e. not requiringhunting for dependencies, docs or WiX tools) working out of box - I almostalways had a lot problems using packages downloaded from sourceforge. 2) links to authoritative sites describing WiX package3) links to most recent documetation available online.RegardsJacek - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
[WiX-users] Convincing customer to use WiX toolset - is it enterprise ready?
Hello! I am in process of trying to convince customer who looks for enterprise grade InstallShield installation package improvements. I have proposed to replace it with WiX based installer and pointed him to WiX sourceforge.net site and got a very fast answer with several doubts: 1. " The sourceforge site indicates this is still in beta, so it is probally not ready for use for a commercial project which we need to distribute to enterprise customers. ... " 2. " I have downloaded the Wix package to take a look, but I could not find any documentation for it, and it does not appear to be a complete package. ... " 3. " If I could find a working example of it to see how the user interface looks during an install I might consider using it, but I would perfer either InstallShield or Wise. ... " Obviosuly I could respond to all this and other serius doubts raised by customer myself but I thought that this process may be of interest to WiX community and I may receive good support in finding arguments in favor of WiX. The most important thing is to show enterprise level installation packages created with WiX - please point me to most prominent installation packages created using WiX toolset which at the best should be available for download and testing. Please indicate as well: 1) links to the latest but still complete packages (i.e. not requiring hunting for dependencies, docs or WiX tools) working out of box - I almost always had a lot problems using packages downloaded from sourceforge. 2) links to authoritative sites describing WiX package 3) links to most recent documetation available online. Regards Jacek - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
