As far as I know, suppressing the Burn UI and using only the MSI UI is not how Burn is *supposed* to be used. Why would the WiX developers spend time and effort to make it easier to use in that way?
-- Nicolás 2013/9/18 Alain Forget <afor...@cmu.edu>: > Which I think reinforces my point. It's not clear to me why it needs to take > lots of time and effort just to suppress a UI, or make minor changes to an > existing UI. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] > Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 15:58 > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] [SPAM] Re: Bootstrapper -- Can it be UI-less? > > It's not trivial to create a custom BA. It takes time and effort. > > > On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Alain Forget <afor...@cmu.edu> wrote: > >> I don't mean compile and setup time. I mean time and effort for someone >> completely unfamiliar with the WiX source and whatever may be involved in >> rolling a custom bootstrapper (like myself and most other people on here >> who ask how to do what doesn't seem like a complex request). >> >> Sure, for you and other WiX pros working on it for years, building the >> code and rolling your own custom BA is trivial. But for the rest of us >> non-WiX devs, especially those of us relatively new to it, it's far from >> trivial, and it seems like a lot (read: too much) to learn and figure out >> just a little UI change, like removing the UI, or adding a field, checkbox, >> label, or window/wizard step. >> >> My point is that you might want to consider making WiX-built installers' >> UIs easier for developers to customise without having to crack open and >> customise the source code (which I can only imagine can create problems >> when trying to keep up with updates to the main code). >> >> Alain >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] >> Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 15:42 >> To: afor...@cmu.edu; General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. >> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] [SPAM] Re: Bootstrapper -- Can it be UI-less? >> >> On my 5 year old machine it takes 5 minutes to build all of the WiX >> toolset source. That isn't *that* long is it? Seems like a reasonable >> amount of time to build a project of our size. There is documentation in >> the WiX.chm with instructions how to build. >> >> >> On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Alain Forget <afor...@cmu.edu> wrote: >> >> >> Is there a tutorial somewhere on where to get the stock BA's >> source, and how to make various changes to it? The only tutorial I found >> involved cracking open Visual Studio, and seemed to involve recompiling the >> whole source and...yeah, a big hurdle to jump. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LIMITED TIME SALE - Full Year of Microsoft Training For Just $49.99! 1,500+ hours of tutorials including VisualStudio 2012, Windows 8, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, MVC 4, more. BEST VALUE: New Multi-Library Power Pack includes Mobile, Cloud, Java, and UX Design. Lowest price ever! Ends 9/20/13. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58041151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
