Has there been any discussion of moving to a different VCS like SVN, Git or Mercurial?
Dieter Lunn http://www.coder2000.ca On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Rob Mensching <r...@robmensching.com> wrote: > Stephen, > > Sorry, the lack of CVS updates is my fault. CVS has been giving me fits > lately and I have not been prioritizing getting to the root of the issues > because I didn't think anyone really cared. Neil is one of about three > people that have *ever* asked about CVS and I don't think he hasn't asked > about it since we got the WiX v3.0 issues worked out. <smile/> > > I am kicking CVS again right now. I'm still seeing intermittent issues but > some things are at least moving along. Hopefully it'll all be updated in the > next hour. Again, sorry for causing you stress. > > Neil, > > I thought we had the binary files all fixed. > > > On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Stephen Reindl > <stephen.rei...@tideum.com>wrote: > >> ... fine, but as you've said, the blog entry is from 2008 and some of the >> software modules mentioned there is even no longer available (e.g. Sandbox >> help compiler 1.7)... >> >> It's not the question on building extensions. I would like to apply some of >> the patches mentioned in SF bug tracking because waiting for someone to >> bring this into the sources doesn't fit into our development timeframe. >> We've more or less in RTM-Mode in one of our software products. One of the >> things that prevents us releasing the software is (besides some showstoppers >> on our side .-) bug #2990556. If we would have the ability to fix the >> problem (i.e. apply the patch) by ourselves, I wouldn't need to write mails >> longer than my arm :-(. >> >> I agree that as long as wix 3.5 is in beta I have to expect (and accept) >> bugs, wix 3.5 is the only platform that supports VSTS 2010 currently (the >> customer wanted to have the software developed with VSTS 2010 to get the >> chance to update to .NET 4.0 very soon). >> >> I personally do like the Idea of using wix because >> >> 1. It's free (and the site claims that source code is available) >> 2. It has a very valuable community (thanks folks for all the >> tips/blogs/questions/solutions available) >> 3. It can simply be stored in TFS besides the project (Votive is one of my >> personal favorites) >> >> What I would like to see from an open source solution is the chance to >> >> * fix bugs >> * enhance the software by myself >> * apply bugs fixed by the community and not applied until now in a given >> delivery >> >> and (if needed/possible) to pass the changes back to the community (we do >> this for other open source software that we use as well). I'm even willing >> to really spend some budget on things that need to be done. But this works >> only if there's a chance to >> >> 1. get access (at least reading) to a version control system that is up to >> date >> 2. get some documentation on how to build a development environment to >> develop and build wix that is now based on assumptions. >> >> Don't get me wrong: I do not want to start <blame> mode but currently I'm a >> little bit upset and we need to decide by end of next week if we stick on >> wix or if we need to switch to some other setup tool. >> >> Regards >> Stephen >> >> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >> Von: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] >> Gesendet: Samstag, 24. April 2010 10:18 >> An: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. >> Betreff: Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.5 Source Code >> >> I asked a similar question sometime ago and I believe the official >> source is held within Microsoft and then republished to CVS. The copy in >> CVS tends to lag behind the wix-sources.zip as republishing is manual. >> There are also issues with the CVS copy in that it has quite a lot of >> broken binary files. I have documented some of the things you need to do >> to build the source here: >> http://neilsleightholm.blogspot.com/2008/10/how-to-create-wix-build-mach >> ine.html. >> It focuses on WiX3 but I think it would apply to WiX3.5 (although the >> last time I tried a build of 3.5 it failed due to the binary issues in >> CVS and files missing from the zip). >> >> I would say that if you only want to rebuild extensions then the source >> is complete. >> >> Neil >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Stephen Reindl [mailto:stephen.rei...@tideum.com] >> Sent: 23 April 2010 16:08 >> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> Subject: [WiX-users] WiX 3.5 Source Code >> >> Hi all, >> >> We are using wix for development of setup tools for our software. As >> part of our efforts we would like to enhance Wix by some parts and >> (hopefully) share the results with you. In addition we are willing to >> provide some effort into fixing problems with Wix. >> >> The question is now: Where's the source code? With every weekly release >> you are providing wix-sources.zip which is more or less complete. >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ >> WiX-users mailing list >> WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users >> >> > > > -- > virtually, Rob Mensching - http://RobMensching.com LLC > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
