Here's a quick list of things that would be nice to clean up as part of a new major release. Most of these are additive so could be done throughout the v4.x series. Anyone think any are a bad idea? I'll end up writing at least a few WIPs for these, though I might cheat and combine a few.
1. Provide bundle equivalents for locator properties in extensions (NetFx and VS especially). 2. Abstract ARP (i.e., no properties) -- with same(?) schema for bundles and packages. 3. Is there more we can do to expand generated GUID support? 4. Support conditions as things you can reference: e.g., ConditionRef for Products, @InstallConditionRef for MsiPackage. (Better reuse -v- preprocessor variables and include files.) 5. Consider what's necessary to create a "release" concept by re-binding: i.e., project-level method of creating DVD -v- Web layouts. 6. Generate @Id for everything that doesn't already do so. 7. BundlePackage element to handle detection and defaults. 8. Product/@Id="*" default. 9. Remove Package/@InstallPrivileges. 10. Cover MSI v5 mutable package scope in Package/@InstallScope. 11. Package/@AdminImage is misused as "please help my custom action elevate." Do we need it in 2014? (i.e., product/package distinction not terribly interesting; do we need the ability to create any package -- e.g., @ShortNames) 12. Can we automate Package/@InstallerVersion? 13. Can we default Package entirely? This is a commonly-overspecified element, since it's required and has lots of fiddly bits that show up in Intellisense. 14. Product/@UpgradeCode required. 15. Refactor Burn searches to also be usable as custom actions from packages (see also #1). 16. LZMA compression for Burn containers. (Better compression than CAB and some implementations offer multithreaded compression, which CAB does not and is a perf sink for bundles with an attached container). -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-devs mailing list WiX-devs@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-devs
