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I agree that it's a total mess on all sides, but I do want to clarify that MSI is a database of what should be installed. I also want to push the note about MSI

I agree that it's a total mess on all sides, but I do want to clarify that MSI is a database of what should be installed. I also want to push the note about MSI files being difficult to nearly impossible (outside of a project in visual studio) to make - I wanted to package something I wrote in vscode in an MSI and honestly I still cant figure out WiX after messing with it for hours. The worst is install shield wrappers around MSI files. I assume it's easier to make but it makes them awful to use for an enterprise.

jhot 3y ago
It's been many years but I used to be in charge of the installers for a small company. WIX was an incredible gift compared to InstallShield and company but it did have a steep learning curve. Much easier to do as I pleased in CI/CD though. In regards to the exe wrappers, handy for bundling dependencies but also useful for elevating permissions in ways you can't do in a standard MSI which only allows elevated permissions during certain stages of the install.