Are those procedural scripts or declarative statements that an engine can apply a transaction to and appropriately rollback should anything go wrong or the user cancels the process? My cursory investigation of all the installation technologies on Linux flavors has been that they just let you run procedural code to "do whatever is necessary". IMHO, that leads everyone (developers and users) down the path to unmanageable systems.
-----Original Message----- From: John Cooper (Volt) [mailto:a-jc...@microsoft.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 12:57 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Other back end installers Although it lacks a sexy UI, the FreeBSD system for packaging up binary builds has the advantage that it's tarballs can run pre- and/or post- install/uninstall scripts to either prepare for the install or return the system back to the state it had before the install. -- John M. Cooper -----Original Message----- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:rob.mensch...@microsoft.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 12:51 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Other back end installers Have a few experiments but nothing for Linux. I'm (not surprisingly) mostly focused on Windows technologies. <smile/> -----Original Message----- From: John Daintree [mailto:jo...@dyalog.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 08:29 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Other back end installers Has anyone experimented with or encountered anything to create other types of install images from WIX sources? I'm thinking RPMs or DEBs for linuxes mainly. Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
