Is that not the wrong question? Rather than getting caught up in the ins and outs of which version to support, why not adopt methods that remove the decision entirely?
Have you considered using CMake, for example, which generates build files for a vast range of build platforms (including VS 6 - 11)? Basically, you outsource the burden of supporting the long tail to CMake. If a *project* limits itself to a certain platform, then so be it. But its build tools certainly shouldn't. WiX has the double problem of being, itself, a build tool so should neither be limited to a certain platform by its own build tools nor limit projects that use it. Alex On 29 April 2012 18:24, Rob Mensching <r...@robmensching.com> wrote: > No, we don't forget that. However, at some point you have to trim your tail > or you end up with an enormous support burden that prevents you from moving > forward. > > One of the big questions for us in WiX v3.7 is how many versions of VS > should we support? It is expensive to keep VS2005 and VS2008 working > because they use the inferior MSBuild 2.0 and MSBuild 3.5. Cutting VS2005 > and VS2008 cuts a big chunk of our tail and would allow us to do more stuff. > > In WiX v4.0 I'm pretty sure we support only VS2010 and VS11 (whatever they > end up calling that). In WiX v4.0 the big question is do we support > Windows XP? VC just dropped support for in in VS11. I hesitate to cut > Windows XP support because it is still very popular... but it too is going > out of support very soon. > > These are never easy decisions. > > On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 3:42 AM, Alexander Lamaison <sw...@lammy.co.uk>wrote: > >> 'Out of support' is just a marketing term. It doesn't mean it >> magically stops working. People forget that often. >> >> Alex >> >> On 29 April 2012 08:06, Rob Mensching <r...@robmensching.com> wrote: >> > NOTE: Win2k was out of support before WiX v3.6 even started development. >> We >> > obviously don't test the code there so I really have no idea how much >> work >> > it will be to make any of the native code built by WiX (Burn, and >> > CustomActions mainly) working on Win2k. >> > >> > On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 12:04 AM, Rob Mensching <r...@robmensching.com >> >wrote: >> > >> >> If you vowed never to build WiX again, then it probably is not feasible. >> >> Burn is in wix\src\burn (burn.build) and as Bob noted if you want >> wixstdba >> >> then you'll need to build wix\src\ext\BalExtension\wixsdtba. >> >> >> >> Both are in WiX so that will require breaking your vow. <smile/> >> >> On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Alexander Lamaison <sw...@lammy.co.uk >> >wrote: >> >> >> >>> On 28 April 2012 21:18, Bob Arnson <b...@joyofsetup.com> wrote: >> >>> > On 28-Apr-12 08:08, Alexander Lamaison wrote: >> >>> >> Is there a way round this? Can I easily compile the bootstrapper >> >>> >> application myself with VS 2005? >> >>> > You'd have to do the same thing to all of Burn too. >> >>> >> >>> Is this feasible? I once tried to build WiX and vowed never ever ever >> >>> again. 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