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The "official" way is to use a janky installer with a tonne of parameters and no real way to tell if you've got all the files until you try to install. With an
by voltagex_ 10y ago
The "official" way is to use a janky installer with a tonne of parameters and no real way to tell if you've got all the files until you try to install. With an ISO, at least you're starting from a known good base when you repackage things.
I don't think Visual Studio has ever been an MSI, by the way.
- nightski 10y agoThere are good reasons for it. I hope a sysadmin isn't afraid of some parameters. We've been waiting a very long time for a minimal/piecewise install capable Visual Studio.
- voltagex_ 10y agoYeah, no fear here, except none of those parameters set any kind of logging and there's no way to tell if the download completed successfully (yay Australian Internet)