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> To be fair, I think Microsoft considered Installers a Windows "bug" for many years. And that's the cusp of the problem. A really developer friendly company w
by danmaz74 7y ago
> To be fair, I think Microsoft considered Installers a Windows "bug" for many years.
And that's the cusp of the problem. A really developer friendly company would have given a simple solution to a developer who had finished his product and wanted to distribute it!
- WorldMaker 7y agoThey certainly tried to make things better at times, though, they just often didn't have all the answers or solve the problem for enough use cases. ClickOnce had some good ideas, but the implementation lacked some details and the .NET-only focus left a lot of developers out. It's also why I find it funny that a lot of developers are so angry at Microsoft for the effort put into the Microsoft Store. They absolutely wanted to make the installer/deployment world a lot better for the average user. Sure, the Microsoft Store in its focus on trying to be the best experience for users hasn't always been the best experience for developers, but they've been refocused on developer experience the past few years, and the MSIX efforts really are interesting. Particularly because they've learned from the mistakes of earlier projects like ClickOnce. (I don't think a lot of people realize yet that MSIX already supports better-than-ClickOnce style application updating from file shares and web servers, bringing ClickOnce-style deployment essentially on par with Store deployment for MSIX.)
- danmaz74 7y agoMs for sure improved as of late. My critique was against the idea that they always were dev friendly.