Markus Karg wrote:
> I understand *your* reasons, but again, my question was: Why using
> DirectoryRef in the *most simple*, *very first* How-To (that
> HelloWorld-style one read first by every WiX beginner) printed in the WiX
> documentation?
All other things being equal, prefer best practices.
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> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Why is the WiX manual using DirectoryRef
>
> Hi Markus,
>
> I've been writing WiX installers for over a year now and started off
> relatively soon with using , putting solely my directory
> tree
>
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> > Sent: Mittwoch, 4. November 2009 01:04
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> > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Why is the WiX manual using DirectoryRef
> >
> >
> > > did that complexity ... Why is the WiX manual separating content
>
y nobody will
confess that he is writing a HelloWorld.msi... ;-)
Regards
Markus
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> did that complexity ... Why is the WiX manual separating content
> from structure
Markus,
I am a new WiX user, but based my gut reaction as a software engineer,
and my thin experience so far with WiX, the answer is "separation of
concerns", which is a fancy way of saying "because it's s
I have read both, the WiX manual and the WiX tutorial.
While the WiX tutorial is putting content (s) directly into structure
(s), the WiX manual is always separating it (s are only
used in s). As Gábor didn't know why the WiX manual authors
did that complexity, I'd like to ask this mailing list
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