Keep coming back, we'll make more.<g> (And I know which book I'd like on 
my Kindle and it's none of mine.<g>)

John Robbins wrote:
> Bob,
>
>   
>> WixUI_Advanced was something Rob and I designed and implemented in one
>> night when figuring out what a good UX for the WiX installer would be.
>> It succeeded there. The per-user stuff was there with the idea that we
>> could support someone who just wanted to get the toolset out of the
>> installer and didn't care about Votive et al that are per-machine
>> pieces. Ideally we could ship just the .msi and not have to also
>> maintain a .zip file. We never went that far (too many people like the
>> .zips, including ourselves<g>) so the per-user stuff was never used and
>> was therefore never proved. A couple of people have used it and
>> contributed fixes, so it "probably mostly works."
>> Long way of saying that I'm not surprised it's unpolished.
>>     
>
> I wouldn't call WixUI_Advanced unpolished. I'd call it "pretty damn awesome." 
> Your unpolished is way better than my polished!
>
> In the big scheme of things the per-user install is the outlier so it's no 
> big deal if it's not supported. I'm probably the only one who went down that 
> path. Having used WiXUI_Advanced on a couple of normal installers, it's 
> totally dreamy!
>
> Thanks for everything you, Rob, Justin, and the other folks are doing on WiX.
>
> - John.
>
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