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The same can be said of programming in general. It's true that msi is different from other installer builders, but it's for a reason. And if you have a concret
by roel_v 13y ago
The same can be said of programming in general.
It's true that msi is different from other installer builders, but it's for a reason. And if you have a concrete project you can build while following along with the wix tutorials and book, it's not difficult, it just takes some time.
- anton_gogolev 13y agoYeah, the "reason" being that Windows Installer was designed to support corporate deployment of applications to shared machines with install-on-demand and roaming profiles, and to support Windows 95 and up. This, and Microsoft's manic affection to backwards compatibility plus "architecture astronautery" (on-demand installs of COM objects, anyone) makes MSI a disaster. The fault of WiX is that it's too thin of a wrapper.