I agree with that, if it were on codeplex, I would probably be more apt to dig through the source myself to work through some of the things that give me fits.
-----Original Message----- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2010 5:49 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.5 Source Code I would like to see it on Codeplex like other Microsoft projects. Neil -----Original Message----- From: Dieter Lunn [mailto:coder2...@gmail.com] Sent: 24 April 2010 23:43 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.5 Source Code 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-m >> ach >> 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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
