On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 04:56:19AM +0800, Andy Sy wrote:
> Michael Chaney wrote:
>
> > Without knowing the specifics, I'm guessing
> > that they wanted to kill off the InstallShield people (perhaps they
> > refused a buyout) and Microsoft realized that a FLOSS project
> > replicating their functio
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Andy Sy wrote:
> I'm not privy to the terms of any deals between Microsoft and
> InstallShield and have no idea if there was any breach of good faith,
> but from a end-user's point of view, I can't see what's so bad about
> this.
Seems to be part of an embrace, extend, takeove
Michael Chaney wrote:
> Without knowing the specifics, I'm guessing
> that they wanted to kill off the InstallShield people (perhaps they
> refused a buyout) and Microsoft realized that a FLOSS project
> replicating their functionality was the best way to injure/kill them.
AS> It would really depe
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 09:42:58AM +0800, Pablo Manalastas wrote:
> Quoting "Winelfred G. Pasamba" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > however with this line
> > wingp:x:500:500:Winelfred G. Pasamba:/home/wingp:/usr/bin/mozilla
> > the keyboard doesn't work with mozilla
>
> This is a wild guess, and I hav
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 10:56:35AM +0800, Andy Sy wrote:
> Michael Chaney wrote:
>
> >Remember, too, that Microsoft has been using InstallShield for their own
> >installations for years. Without knowing the specifics, I'm guessing
> >that they wanted to kill off the InstallShield people (perhaps
On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 14:22, Miguel A Paraz wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 11:41:49AM +0800, Gideon N. Guillen wrote:
> > I guess the difference is that WiX, unlike other windows installers is
> > that this one is from Micro$oft, and more "developers" will dig it
> > because it has the "M$ Seal o
All Windows ME, 2000 and XP users have integrated MSI support as part of
their Windows OS. Users of Windows NT 4.0, 95 and 98 must download the
MSI installer, if it was not already installed by another product's
installation.
example execution:
MSIEXEC /I c:\app.msi
Or just run "MSIEXEC" from do
