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I've often thought about creating and marketing my own bootstrapper product. I
know the storie
Christopher
Painter
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 6:28 PM
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I've often thought about creating and marketing my own bootstrapper product. I
know the stories and requirement
I'd be willing to pay. I've payed you know who thousands of dollars year after
year and felt that I got my moneys worth. While I like that WiX is open
source, I don't need it to be free, I just need it ( or some tool in an
ecosystem that it creates ) to get to a level where it meets my needs b
Christopher Painter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hmmm...
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>http://www.productbeautiful.com/2008/05/02/why-product-management-is-open-sources-fatal-flaw/
Nice read, I can sympathize with both sides. Howerver the users are
not willing to pay and so why should I care as developer. I do as I
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I've often thought about creating and marketing my own bootstrapper
product. I know the stories and requirements inside out as I&#x
Neil Sleightholm wrote:
I don't think people read beta as "not functionally complete", I think
they read "full of bugs". I agree that it is missing some very
important features but in my experience what is there is very
reliable. I seem to remember v2 going through a few releases where the
c
Christopher Painter wrote:
> Hmmm...
>
> http://www.productbeautiful.com/2008/05/02/why-product-management-is-open-sources-fatal-flaw/
My question stands: What does power have to do with it?
Product/project/program management isn't about wielding authority, it's
about building consensus.
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ity was asked
whether the current build was a good release candidate and then that one
was posted as a release.
Neil
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Hmmm...
http://www.productbeautiful.com/2008/05/02/why-product-management-is-open-sources-fatal-flaw/
Bob Arnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Christopher Painter wrote:
> I know a very good product manager that would probably volunteer. The
> question is, would the engineers yield the p
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> Interesting. Let's go back and look at
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> Interesting. Let's go back
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X2 Systems Limited
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Interesting. Let'
Christopher Painter wrote:
> I know a very good product manager that would probably volunteer. The
> question is, would the engineers yield the power in an open source
> environment?
What does power have to do with it?
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As an aside, does the design of Fredrik's bootstrapper framework meet my
needs?
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I know a very good product manager that would probably volunteer. The question
is, would the engineers yield the power in an open source environment?
Bob Arnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: dB. wrote: You all
speak like a bunch of engineers :)
There are rarely enough program
dB. wrote:
You all speak like a bunch of engineers :)
There are rarely enough program managers on open-source projects.
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From: Christopher Painter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I've often thought about creatin
ality of today plus fixing ~150 bugs.
Thoughts?
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Rob,
I think you completely nailed it
I am working on a rather complex project using Wix 3 beta. It is
expected that we will eventually generate frequent patches and minor
upgrades (i.e. hotfixes and SPs) so a stable standard Wix plus patching
functionality would be very desirable. Within next few months, if
possible :)
If MSI SDK bo
June it'll
show up... then bug fixes and additional feature requests go from there.
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3.0 release date
If I'm not mistaken, the legality behind contribution from the Microsoft
standpoint is the issue on having so noted hackathon.
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Luke Bakken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL
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> That means there will be no bo
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Fair.
Of course, I don't think we should be looking to take over the world
with the WiX toolset (we pro
If I'm not mistaken, the legality behind contribution from the Microsoft
standpoint is the issue on having so noted hackathon.
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Luke Bakken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > That means there will be no bootstrapper in WiX v3 and no improvement to
> the IIS CustomActi
> That means there will be no bootstrapper in WiX v3 and no improvement to the
> IIS CustomActions to better handle IIS7. Basically, imagine the WiX v3
> toolset functionality of today plus fixing ~150 bugs.
>
> Thoughts?
My $0.02:
I've been using the Platform SDK MSI bootstrapper with WiX to
y of today plus fixing ~150 bugs.
Thoughts?
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Rob,
I think you completely nailed it when y
ix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] WIX 3.0 release date
Interesting. Let's go back and look at the things that are driving the
WiX v3 release.
1. Bugs. WiX v2 was marked "stable" by pushing a number of bugs to WiX
v3 (especially Votive bugs). There are still a
is quite functional but there are bug
fixes going in so we have to "reserve the right" to accidentally break stuff
that works. Pick you risk profile and go from there.
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> From: Rob Mensching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 6:10 PM
&
> From: Rob Mensching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>
> WiX v2 *is* out of beta. It has been for a good many months
> (http://robmensching.com/blog/archive/2008/02/17/WiX-toolset-o
> n-SourceForge-marked-ProductionStable.aspx). We're going to
> have to do an
to pick "high quality" v2 builds and push them out to
SourceForge. If you wanted to start managing that type of process for
WiX v3, feel free to contact me and we can talk about it.
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hat will be 100% backwards compatible and done
very carefully to minimize regressions.
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