I would like to add my support for a move to Git or Mercurial (my personal favorite is Git, but Mercurial will do).
In my personal experience using Git (and Github) makes it much easier for me to supply patches - this is an area in which I find Wix is lacking. Kudos for the tool though ;-) -- Kind regards, Wilbert van Dolleweerd Blog: http://walkingthestack.blogspot.com/ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/wvandolleweerd 2010/4/25 Dieter Lunn <coder2...@gmail.com> > 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? 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