On 11/9/2013 10:28 PM, Christopher Painter wrote: > > 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. >
Good point. I was attempting to counter your “I would question why software is even being installed on a machine like that.” – i.e. Windows Core installations are going to be increasingly common. I guess it depends what sort of software you're writing, whether you can assume .NET is going to be present, and whether it's likely to be installed on servers. In the last few weeks I've had to ensure not only that installations on Core worked, but that we could also get our software installed under WIndows PE, which doesn't have Windows Installer! -- Bruce Cran ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ November Webinars for C, C++, Fortran Developers Accelerate application performance with scalable programming models. Explore techniques for threading, error checking, porting, and tuning. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60136231&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-devs mailing list WiX-devs@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-devs
