> Bob Arnson wrote: > > John Vottero wrote: > > Are you saying that it's impossible to create a good Installer based > > Installer class? > > > No. > > That's fine with me, who do I start with? I just need some > direction > > from Microsoft. Right now, I have the PowerShell team > saying "use these > > Installer based classes to install your Cmdlets" but the Windows > > Installer/WiX people are saying "Yuck, don't use that > crap!". What am I > > supposed to do? > > > Ask the PowerShell team to do the right thing for their customers and > their customers's customers. Worst case, they should document > what the > installer classes do so anyone can do it, regardless of tool. Better > yet, they can provide merge modules, .wixlibs, or WiX extensions for > strongly-typed authoring. Best of all, they can work with the > WiX team > to ship them in the box. Some teams already do some of it, but it's > driven by customer demand. If they don't hear from customers > that it's > an issue, they're going to (logically) do the simplest thing.
I posted this exchange and a number of questions on the PowerShell newsgroup and here's the response: Posting on behalf of the feature developer. > Does the PowerShell team feel that PSSnapin is suitable for professional > Cmdlet installers? Or, is it intended to be a tool for developers to use > to quickly get a Cmdlet working? This is mostly tool for developer to get the cmdlet working. Release setup should set the registry keys explicitly. > > Does the PSSnapin do anything other than creating registry entries? No. > > Will the inner workings of PSSnapin be documented? It just sets series of registry keys. We need to document the keys which vendors need to set for registering snapins. I will open a bug for this. > > Will the PowerShell team create a WiX extension? There is no plan for V1. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
