Yes. One of the reasons I've been slacking on CVS is because I've been looking into other options. Mercurial is my personal favorite right now.
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Dieter Lunn <coder2...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > -- virtually, Rob Mensching - http://RobMensching.com LLC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
