And the default contains PowerShell and .NET. It seems like you are
playing both sides.... trying to make the defaults seem more important
then they are while at the same time talking about how someone could remove
PowerShell which is not a default.
In 2013, I feel very comfortable in making .NET my partner in the general
case. I answer questions on StackOverflow every day and the vast majority
of developers are still writing horrible InstallScript, VBScript, JScript,
InstallUtil, EXE, .BAT custom actions. It's hard enough to get through to
them with C#... C++ is a lost cause.
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From: "Bruce Cran" <br...@cran.org.uk>
Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2013 3:22 PM
To: "WiX toolset developer mailing list" <wix-devs@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [WiX-devs] Issue & possible solution: Burn Startup-Screen is
shown twice (on Windows XP) if bootstrapper contains driver-installation
On 11/9/2013 9:08 PM, Christopher Painter wrote:
Let me bring this full circle. The conversation started with Rob saying:
"Also, XP is going to have to go away. Not desirable to do highly complex
stuff for something that is *definitely* not the future."
To me, it's the same thing. C++ is highly complex compared to C# and some
Server-Core without .NET running Hyper-V isn't even remotely a common case.
I would question why software is even being installed on a machine like
that. If you are going to break best practices by putting applications on
the parent partition, you might as well put .NET and PowerShell on there
while you are at it.
Remember that the _default_ installation of Server 2012 onwards is Core.
Of course installers are still needed for drivers and their management
tools, as well as anything like Web apps etc.
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Bruce Cran
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