I understand this approach, but it's very Microsoft-Windows-like: a project that lasts years. I am fine using wix in its beta form, but that's because I am both management and development. Had I been only management, I wouldn't have made this call.
My 0.02c is that it would greatly benefit wix adoption to stabilize on a more limited feature set and release 3.0 in 2008. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Mensching Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 12:49 PM To: Daniel Hughes; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WIX 3.0 release date 1. The "SourceForge drops" weren't any different than the weekly releases. Since there is a fair bit of overhead in getting the drops on to the SourceForge releases page, the cost to benefit ratio wasn't working out. 2. We could do a drop to the "releases page" but it really wouldn't be any different than a "weekly release". Instead, I've been considering "releasing" a web page that points at the weekly releases to make it clearer where to get WiX v3 drops. 3. I expect WiX v3 will come out of beta sometime mid-next year. My hope is to get all of the major features and the majority of the bug back log taken care of by the end of this year and then just bake for 9 or so months. 4. I have an old blog post that talks about what WiX v3 is about (http://robmensching.com/blog/archive/2007/04/10/WiX-v3-Roadmap-Draft.as px). The ClickThrough features on that roadmap are probably not going to make it since we have a larger bug count than anticipated. Also, IIS7 is turning out to be a pain point that I believe we're going to have to find some way to tackle. Plenty of work to be done before the end of the year. 5. To be clear, we're focused on working towards completing WiX v3 right now, not stabilizing it. "Completing" means we're fixing every bug and getting features checked in. "Stabilizing" means punting bugs and definitely not adding features. We spent about a year "stabilizing" WiX v2 before a lot of people suggested that it was done. I'm hoping we move a bit faster through stabilizing WiX v3 since the VS team has donated a few extra resources. 6. Note: we had someone during the WiX v2 timeframe that took the effort 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. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Hughes Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 18:43 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] WIX 3.0 release date Hi, I have noticed that WIX 3.0 has been a beta for a long time. The current source forge drop is now over a year old 2007-05-25 09:31, Thats a long time people.... that drop didn't even work with VS2008 I know you can get the weekly builds but those of us who want to use WIX 3.0 in our products require something a little more proven then a weekly release..... So when is WIX 3.0 coming out of BETA.... and when do we get at least another sourceforge drop... Is their some kind of roadmap.... or at least some kind of estimate for the release date... What about a list of stuff which needs doing before the release....? Cheers, Daniel ======================================================================= This email, including any attachments, is only for the intended addressee. It is subject to copyright, is confidential and may be the subject of legal or other privilege, none of which is waived or lost by reason of this transmission. If the receiver is not the intended addressee, please accept our apologies, notify us by return, delete all copies and perform no other act on the email. Unfortunately, we cannot warrant that the email has not been altered or corrupted during transmission. ======================================================================= ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. 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
