The lack of bootstrapper in the WiX toolset is a huge known gap. This was just discussed yesterday, WiX v3.5 (development starts in a couple months assuming WiX v3 bug counts continue to drop as they are) is focused on the bootstrapper project codenamed "burn".
Solving the myriad of needs people have for bootstrappers makes for a very "interesting" project. Especially "interesting" since many pre-requisites out there are very large and complicated to install. Note: people here might have suggestions for other bootstrappers out there. There are a few. -----Original Message----- From: Joel Paula (hotmail) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 14:52 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] How to for non english culture? After 1 week of struggling with WiX, I am ready to give up. This is my last attempt to save the time I have spent with it. My project: . Install a product that has a VB6 application and a .Net 2.0 application. . Install all required run times (It Just Works style) . Works for English (en), Brazilian Portuguese (pt-BR) and Standard Portuguese (pt-PT) - Doesn't install English .Net over a Brazilian operating system, etc. What I found out: . The Visual Studio bootstraper doesn't deploy non-english files and there is no way to add packages for other languages/MS doesn't provide them . There is not bootstraper in WiX, so we are advised to use something like NSIS (which is what I was running away from) Does anybody have any experience with developing installers for multiple cultures? Any advices? Website links? Should I head back to NSIS? Thank you very much. Joel Paula ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
