Strongly agreed. Particular when they won’t discuss weaknesses. Every
technology has them.
When somebody denies a technology has weaknesses, I get really worried and I
look very hard to find them.
Used to write those scripted tarballs—well I remember.
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From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@firegiant.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 12:43 PM
To: WiX toolset developer mailing list
Subject: Re: [WiX-devs] Future coolness (was RE: Windows Nano server)
Ahh. Well, that’s possible today with prototype work in Simplified WiX.
Now, IMHO, NuGet and nupkg’s as they are today aren’t terribly compelling
installation technologies. It’s basically, drop a bunch of files and run a
custom PowerShell script. That’s 1980s based-installation technology that
brought us all kinds of hell when it “got big” (which none of these NuGet based
systems are yet). However, that’s not to say the world won’t keep changing
(Innovator’s Dilemma and all that) so I’m staying abreast of the technologies
as they change…
With that said, we’re in the middle of a very large transition right now. The
world is going to get chaotic for a while. It’ll be interesting but don’t let
the hipster-programmers tell you that the fundamentals don’t matter. They don’t
stick to one project long enough to feel the pain of the systems they built.
<smile/>
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From: Stephen Tunney [mailto:stephen.tun...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 10:25 AM
To: WiX toolset developer mailing list
Subject: Re: [WiX-devs] Future coolness (was RE: Windows Nano server)
My apologies,
With respect to Chocolatey
WiX would generate a .nuspec (perhaps) that could do all of the things that
MSIs do today (perhaps with some limitation, though I can't think of any).
This would allow the WiX xml to generate MSIs, .nuspec, and allow the user to
pick their delivery vehicle.
Just as a side note, I looked at the Google Chrome chocolatey package, and it
is a thin wrapper around... their MSI !! :)
On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 at 13:01 Rob Mensching
<r...@firegiant.com<mailto:r...@firegiant.com>> wrote:
Changing title.
I don’t understand that question. WiX is a build tool, not an installation
engine.
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From: Tunney, Stephen
[mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com<mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com>]
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 9:50 AM
To: WiX toolset developer mailing list
Subject: Re: [WiX-devs] Windows Nano server
So on the subject of “future coolness”;
Are there plans for translating WiX declarative XML into
OneGet/Chocolatey/NuGet packages as well?
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