Rob, The CVS issues were fixed for 3.0 but unless I am mistaken 3.5 is not fixed (updated just before this email) I have reported this several times but nothing has changed. In my opinion the issue is this is supposed to be open/community source but the source doesn't build (even last week's zip is broken). Don't get me wrong, it is great that I can reference the source but if you want anyone else to contribute outside of Microsoft it is very difficult as Stephen is finding. Personally I don't care about CVS as it is rubbish I would be happy with the zip file but even the zip file is deficient.
Stephen, although the original post is from 2008 I have tried to keep it current for v3. If I get time I will try again with 3.5 but as it is still beta I thought it was too transient to blog about. Neil -----Original Message----- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Sent: 24 April 2010 23:06 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.5 Source Code Stephen, Sorry, the lack of CVS updates is my fault. CVS has been giving me fits lately and I have not been prioritizing getting to the root of the issues because I didn't think anyone really cared. Neil is one of about three people that have *ever* asked about CVS and I don't think he hasn't asked about it since we got the WiX v3.0 issues worked out. <smile/> I am kicking CVS again right now. I'm still seeing intermittent issues but some things are at least moving along. Hopefully it'll all be updated in the next hour. Again, sorry for causing you stress. Neil, I thought we had the binary files all fixed. On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Stephen Reindl <stephen.rei...@tideum.com>wrote: > ... fine, but as you've said, the blog entry is from 2008 and some of the > software modules mentioned there is even no longer available (e.g. Sandbox > help compiler 1.7)... > > It's not the question on building extensions. I would like to apply some of > the patches mentioned in SF bug tracking because waiting for someone to > bring this into the sources doesn't fit into our development timeframe. > We've more or less in RTM-Mode in one of our software products. One of the > things that prevents us releasing the software is (besides some showstoppers > on our side .-) bug #2990556. If we would have the ability to fix the > problem (i.e. apply the patch) by ourselves, I wouldn't need to write mails > longer than my arm :-(. > > I agree that as long as wix 3.5 is in beta I have to expect (and accept) > bugs, wix 3.5 is the only platform that supports VSTS 2010 currently (the > customer wanted to have the software developed with VSTS 2010 to get the > chance to update to .NET 4.0 very soon). > > I personally do like the Idea of using wix because > > 1. It's free (and the site claims that source code is available) > 2. It has a very valuable community (thanks folks for all the > tips/blogs/questions/solutions available) > 3. It can simply be stored in TFS besides the project (Votive is one of my > personal favorites) > > What I would like to see from an open source solution is the chance to > > * fix bugs > * enhance the software by myself > * apply bugs fixed by the community and not applied until now in a given > delivery > > and (if needed/possible) to pass the changes back to the community (we do > this for other open source software that we use as well). I'm even willing > to really spend some budget on things that need to be done. But this works > only if there's a chance to > > 1. get access (at least reading) to a version control system that is up to > date > 2. get some documentation on how to build a development environment to > develop and build wix that is now based on assumptions. > > Don't get me wrong: I do not want to start <blame> mode but currently I'm a > little bit upset and we need to decide by end of next week if we stick on > wix or if we need to switch to some other setup tool. > > Regards > Stephen > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] > Gesendet: Samstag, 24. April 2010 10:18 > An: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Betreff: Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.5 Source Code > > I asked a similar question sometime ago and I believe the official > source is held within Microsoft and then republished to CVS. The copy in > CVS tends to lag behind the wix-sources.zip as republishing is manual. > There are also issues with the CVS copy in that it has quite a lot of > broken binary files. I have documented some of the things you need to do > to build the source here: > http://neilsleightholm.blogspot.com/2008/10/how-to-create-wix-build-mach > ine.html. > It focuses on WiX3 but I think it would apply to WiX3.5 (although the > last time I tried a build of 3.5 it failed due to the binary issues in > CVS and files missing from the zip). > > I would say that if you only want to rebuild extensions then the source > is complete. > > Neil > > -----Original Message----- > From: Stephen Reindl [mailto:stephen.rei...@tideum.com] > Sent: 23 April 2010 16:08 > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] WiX 3.5 Source Code > > Hi all, > > We are using wix for development of setup tools for our software. As > part of our efforts we would like to enhance Wix by some parts and > (hopefully) share the results with you. In addition we are willing to > provide some effort into fixing problems with Wix. > > The question is now: Where's the source code? 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