That seems a bit long, but if you measured it... Either way, as you say, it's not a WIX problem. The original post was betting that the creators of WIX (Microsoft employees mostly) had not used it to create complex installations. I was pointing out the error of that. Office-2007 is clearly a significant and complex install process. (Whether it *should* be that complex is an entirely different matter and not relevant to the context of the original thread).
Over the last 2 decades I've used just about everything available for setup and installation of software. Even at its current "unstable state" and lack of documentation Wix V3.0 beats them all hands down. The classic programmer model (compiler/linker, etc...) and Votive projects for support in VS for modularized projects alongside the application code is a simple and subtle difference from everything else. That subtle difference though brings benefits and advantages that simply cannot be dreamed of with other tools. Modularization and encapsulation etc... This allows developers to create installation wixlib libraries for their small pieces of a larger puzzle. It also allows unit testing of installs! Developers can create their wixlib and a separate MSI project to test it with to validate they got all the right pieces and parts installed correctly. But since the unit test MSI is actually installing the component in question it can also install a unit test application to test the component itself **AS it will be installed on the end user machine**. This is something that has a dramatic impact on the quality of code developed and released. (Probably not something that was on the design goals for WIX but a really great side benefit!) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DEÁK JAHN, Gábor Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 5:41 AM To: WiX-users Subject: [WiX-users] Some STUPID Limitations in WiX On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:52:35 +1200, Steve Maillet wrote: Steve, > You'd lose that bet! Microsoft Office 2007 installation is built with > WIX. It's not directly related to WiX but something rather strange happened to me the other day. On a computer where MS Office is not welcome, we had to install Outlook for three minutes, just for the time it takes for Thunderbird to pick up all previous correspondence and settings, then remove Outlook again for good. Granted, the computer was rather low on memory (128 MB, more has been added since but was unavailable at the time of the operation), so clearly not capable of running Office even if the owner wanted it, but we only wanted to install, not to use. Clearing every single checkbox but Outlook in a customized setup resulted in 45 minutes (not an exaggeration, measured) of installation. What's even stranger, uninstallation (removing about 10 MB worth of files) took the very same amount of time. Bye, Gábor ------------------------------------------------------------------- DEÁK JAHN, Gábor -- Budapest, Hungary E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
