Classification: Public Sorry, I should have been more clear on my last comment.
I meant Burn out of the box does not support asking questions. That would be a custom BA, most likely a WPF application frontend with BA backend to handle all the necessary MSI stuff :) Steve -----Original Message----- From: Blair Murri [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent: November-15-13 10:37 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. 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 -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Question-re-WIX-other-MSI-installer-tools-tp7590687p7590690.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DreamFactory - Open Source REST & JSON Services for HTML5 & Native Apps OAuth, Users, Roles, SQL, NoSQL, BLOB Storage and External API Access Free app hosting. Or install the open source package on any LAMP server. Sign up and see examples for AngularJS, jQuery, Sencha Touch and Native! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=63469471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DreamFactory - Open Source REST & JSON Services for HTML5 & Native Apps OAuth, Users, Roles, SQL, NoSQL, BLOB Storage and External API Access Free app hosting. Or install the open source package on any LAMP server. Sign up and see examples for AngularJS, jQuery, Sencha Touch and Native! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=63469471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users This message has been marked as Public by Steven Ogilvie on November-16-13 10:59:00 AM. The above classification labels were added to the message by TITUS Message Classification. For more information visit www.titus.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DreamFactory - Open Source REST & JSON Services for HTML5 & Native Apps OAuth, Users, Roles, SQL, NoSQL, BLOB Storage and External API Access Free app hosting. Or install the open source package on any LAMP server. Sign up and see examples for AngularJS, jQuery, Sencha Touch and Native! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=63469471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
