Strongly agreed. Particular when they wonât discuss weaknesses. Every technology has them.
When somebody denies a technology has weaknesses, I get really worried and I look very hard to find them.
Used to write those scripted tarballsâwell I remember.
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From: Rob Mensching [mailto:***@firegiant.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 12:43 PM
To: WiX toolset developer mailing list
Subject: Re: [WiX-devs] Future coolness (was RE: Windows Nano server)
Ahh. Well, thatâs possible today with prototype work in Simplified WiX.
Now, IMHO, NuGet and nupkgâs as they are today arenât terribly compelling installation technologies. Itâs basically, drop a bunch of files and run a custom PowerShell script. Thatâs 1980s based-installation technology that brought us all kinds of hell when it âgot bigâ (which none of these NuGet based systems are yet). However, thatâs not to say the world wonât keep changing (Innovatorâs Dilemma and all that) so Iâm staying abreast of the technologies as they changeâŠ
With that said, weâre in the middle of a very large transition right now. The world is going to get chaotic for a while. Itâll be interesting but donât let the hipster-programmers tell you that the fundamentals donât matter. They donât stick to one project long enough to feel the pain of the systems they built. <smile/>
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From: Stephen Tunney [mailto:***@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 10:25 AM
To: WiX toolset developer mailing list
Subject: Re: [WiX-devs] Future coolness (was RE: Windows Nano server)
My apologies,
With respect to Chocolatey
WiX would generate a .nuspec (perhaps) that could do all of the things that MSIs do today (perhaps with some limitation, though I can't think of any).
This would allow the WiX xml to generate MSIs, .nuspec, and allow the user to pick their delivery vehicle.
Just as a side note, I looked at the Google Chrome chocolatey package, and it is a thin wrapper around... their MSI !! :)
On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 at 13:01 Rob Mensching <***@firegiant.com<mailto:***@firegiant.com>> wrote:
Changing title.
I donât understand that question. WiX is a build tool, not an installation engine.
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From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:***@nuance.com<mailto:***@nuance.com>]
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 9:50 AM
To: WiX toolset developer mailing list
Subject: Re: [WiX-devs] Windows Nano server
So on the subject of âfuture coolnessâ;
Are there plans for translating WiX declarative XML into OneGet/Chocolatey/NuGet packages as well?
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