To provide a bit more detail on what Bob said, the biggest difference between the planned WiX bootstrapper and the other bootstrappers discussed here is to create something with built in layers so that you can use only the functionality that you want. Additionally, the hope is to make the binary very tiny (definitely < 500K, and I personally want to come in < 120K) with very few dependencies. No earth shattering "patentable" functionality just very tight C/C++ code.
Also, Bob pointed out that this is the same struggle I had when we forked WiX v3 off of WiX v2. There was feature creep affecting the WiX v2 schedule so we just had to cut the new stuff free. Thus WiX v3 was born. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Arnson Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 09:08 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Proposed adjustments the WiX v2 and WiX v3 roadmap. Evans, Jim wrote: > This is sorely disappointing to me personally. Quite frankly, I need the > bootstrapper. I hate that I'll be waiting for WiX v4 to get it. It's unlikely to change the date when the bootstrapper becomes available. Working on it in the v4 branch gives us the flexibility to ship it in stages and not be "forced" to do a more limited release just to ship v3. Also note that there's nothing that ties the bootstrapper to a particular build of WiX; you can easily use v3 to build your setups and v4 for the bootstrapper. > In an > earlier email, Rob, you mentioned that your team had the design pretty > well nailed down, though the code has a long way to go. Is there any > chance that the community could get a peek at that design? > What aspects of the design are you interested in? The biggest piece is all internal: e.g., how the worker thread handles installations and communicates progress with the UX thread. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
