They say this CBS is Vista's Official Installation Technology, even if that is
not so great... I would like to take a look anyway ;) But i did'nt find any
resources about it, could somebody add some links please?
Regards
> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:57:56 -0800
> From: Rob Mensching
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] New Official Installation Technology? CBS?
> What?
> To: "Peterson, Joel" ,
> wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
>
> I used to work on CBS (that's the team I just quit). Trust me, it is the
> latest but it certainly isn't the greatest.
>
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peterson, Joel
> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 16:14
> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [WiX-users] New Official Installation Technology? CBS? What?
>
> I saw this while doing some digging as to why PowerShell RTM isn't available
> for Vista:
> http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2006/11/15/windows-powershell-windows-vista.aspx
>
>
> > So what's the difference between the Vista and XP/Server release of
> > PowerShell? Is it just the installer? Why does it take 2 more months?
>
> Yes - the only difference is the installer.
>
> Being an official Windows component means you use the official windows
> installation technology and on Vista that is the new CBS technology. There is
> exactly one team in the world that can build this and that team has been a
> tad busy (While I sometimes think that PowerShell is more important that
> Vista - I just can't seem to ever convince other people of that. :-) ).
>
> PowerShell is the world's first Vista OutOfBand release. There are a few pain
> points that come with that honor. Nothing serious but there are just some
> things that are different and need a bit of time to work out. They are a
> great team and are doing great work, they just need a bit of time.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]
> Windows PowerShell/MMC Architect
> What? Isn't the Windows Installer the latest and greatest installation
> technology?
>
> Joel Peterson
> Quality Engineer
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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