Rob Mensching wrote: > Is MSI that bad? I mean, I know that declarative programming > is very different from procedural programming but the Windows > Installer handles a lot of things very well. Probably my > biggest gripe is that the Component Rules suck. Is there > something you think is worse in MSI?
One of my biggest gripes with MSI so far is that it dead slow (which is, of course, a very subjective impression). I understand that the amount of work MSI is doing under the hood takes some time and I don't expect the security given by the MSI way (ability to rollback, repair options, clean uninstall) coming for free, and in my eyes the advantages of MSI(/Wix) outweigh the disadvantages (that's why I ended up using it, after all...) However, an installation time exceeding e.g. a quick-and-dirty NSIS based install by a factor of four(!, and I had even worse cases) is hard to explain to both management and customers. Maybe I am doing something completely wrong, but I don't have the feeling my installers behave worse than other MSI based installers of applications of comparable size, so I don't feel too guilty yet... Andre' ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
