Bruce, can you provide a direct link to the thread? I'm having trouble finding it.
Edwin G. Castro Software Developer - Staff Digital Channels Fiserv Office: 503-746-0643 Fax: 503-617-0291 www.fiserv.com Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail > -----Original Message----- > From: Bruce Cran [mailto:br...@cran.org.uk] > Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 9:14 AM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Cc: Castro, Edwin G. (Hillsboro); chr...@iswix.com > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Wow! > > On 05/03/2012 17:03, Castro, Edwin G. (Hillsboro) wrote: > > Often corporate policies restrict internet access in such a way where asking > each development machine to download the packages is actually very painful. > Local caches (which should be accessible directly on the target server _or_ a > local network share _or_ on a local web server) should be supported for > enterprise deployments. > > > > I'm not saying that download and verification provides absolutely no value > because that functionality provides value to the average user that is > installing > software to their home computer. What I'm saying is that when there is an IT > department between you and management of your machine then features like > download and verification only provide marginal value because IT departments > often want to be in more control. > > There was a rather lengthy discussion about this wrt driver development at > http://www.osronline.com/cf.cfm?PageURL=showlists.cfm?list=NTDEV a few > days ago. > > -- > Bruce Cran ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
