Don't forget validation (ICE's) and support for existing and future platforms. If you utilize the Burn approach for any (limited) customization to the installation and simply property drive your MSI's then they become incredibly simple to manage (over some custom script that may or may not work on all OS's/Languages/Bitness/etc).
-----Original Message----- From: tom [mailto:tomer.d...@intergraph.com] Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 3:29 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] I have heard that MSI is too complicated from a programmer's prospective I would argue that developing MSI with wix is a little bit more complicated than developing in c# or other scripting language at the beginning, because programmers which use to tell the compiler "How to do" things now need to use declarative language and tell the compiler "What to do" Some programmers feel that this is somewhat limiting their options I guess, This is obviously true but also has advantage...let Microsoft worry that it will work Moving from IS to Wix, my first task was to get rid of all install scripts and custom logic, and move anything I can into Windows installer tables You learn to love windows installer; it is like playing with Lego, when you put in place all the parts (Mostly) everything works great, and Wix? Well…"Wix is love" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Box) -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/I-have-heard-that-MSI-is-too-complicated-from-a-programmer-s-prospective-tp7581130p7581134.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
