[Coapp-developers] CoApp FAQ: A few important distinctions.

2010-07-29 Thread Garrett Serack
(cross-posted to my blog) It's been suggested a few times over the last several weeks that CoApp won't provide any value for the .NET community. With the emergence of several alternative projects to provide a form of package management (NPack, OpenWrap, nu-net, and others), I figured I'd better

Re: [Coapp-developers] CoApp FAQ: A few important distinctions.

2010-07-29 Thread Garrett Serack
Yes, XP and 2003 are in scope—with the caveat that there may be slight differences on these platforms due to their lack of NTFS symlink support; but, those changes are limited to XP & 2003—we will not build a flawed design for Vista and beyond. MSI offers *a lot* of really useful features that