RE: [WiX-devs] wix2.0 "branch" created, wix v3 coming soon.

[Frederik Carlier]

Title: RE: [WiX-devs] wix2.0 "branch" created, wix v3 coming soon.

Rob,

this is very exciting news :). I just took a look in the v3 branch and it looks really interesting.

Out of curiousity, what exactly is it that you are trying to achieve that CVS branching does not offer you? I am currently diving into the joys of CVS so this would make an interesting case-study for me :).
At a risk of pointing out the obvious, the CVS book (free PDF), http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/, seems to have  good information about the CVS branch feature.

Frederik.


-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Rob Mensching
Sent: Fri 11/4/2005 11:58 AM
To: wix-devs@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-devs] wix2.0 "branch" created, wix v3 coming soon.

If you watch the wix-commits mailing list closely, you should see a whole bunch of commits from me creating the "wix2.0" "branch".  This "branch" (which is really just another CVS module because the CVS branching mechanism didn't seem to be what I wanted) is where future WiX v2 work will go.  The goal of WiX v2 is to drive for a production quality release, no new features.  Derek has been doing a great job killing off bugs here and has done some work to ease the transition to future WiX versions.

The "wix" module will continue to be where active (unstable) development continues on with WiX v3.  At the moment, the "wix" and "wix2.0" branches are identical but that will change as soon as I get the NAnt conversion code pushed into CVS correctly.  This may happen as soon as tomorrow since John, Justin, and Bob have finished off the major bugs in the WiX NAnt build.  Note, that Derek has done some incredible work in WiX v3.  WiX v3 has more features than WiX v2 but will not be as stable any time soon.

Anyway, this is just me finally starting to catch up with all the work from the last few months.  I still need to get to the external contributions and that is high on my list after getting the WiX v3 code pushed and a new release out on SourceForge to address all the bugs that have been fixed.

virtually,

        Rob Mensching
        http://blogs.msdn.com/robmen
        http://wix.sourceforge.net