I'd second that. -----Original Message----- From: Stephen Reindl [mailto:stephen.rei...@tideum.com] Sent: 25 April 2010 11:13 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.5 Source Code
I agree that the bug-tracking/discussion system of Codeplex needs improvement. Why not keeping the bug-tracking and mailing lists (except the commit-list) on sf? It's free :-) and working fine... Regards Stephen -- Stephen Reindl CTO Tideum Deutschland AG Justus-Liebig-Straße 3 D-41564 Kaarst Tel.: +49 (0)2131 - 153056 - 0 Fax: +49 (0)2131 - 153056 - 11 Mobil: +49 (0)15 1 - 54 77 27 63 stephen.rei...@tideum.com www.tideum.com The information transmitted is intended only for the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient(s) is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. Company information: Sitz der Gesellschaft: Kaarst - Registergericht Neuss HRB 14784 - Vorstand: Andreas Hackethal, Stephen Reindl Aufsichtsrat: Andreas Jaeger (Vorsitzender), Dr. Carsten S. Wehn, Georg Wolter Freiherr von Stackelberg -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Gesendet: Sonntag, 25. April 2010 07:27 An: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Betreff: Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.5 Source Code Fair enough. I guess I took silence as a lack of interest and didn't appropriately weight the fact that slow updates to CVS would prevent interest (yes, sometimes I'm slow <smile/>). I have been investigating CodePlex ever since they added Mercurial support. Given the number of comments here about the preference for CodePlex, I give it decent odds we'll move there. I still dislike the "discussion" system (why can't they just have a real mailing list?) and the bug tracker isn't really any better than SourceForge. Anyway, as I've mentioned to some, I've been a bit over capacity for the last few months. Things will be improving through May. Lots of churn right now... thanks for the feedback here. On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 8:31 PM, John H. Bergman (XPedient Technologies) < john.berg...@xpedienttechnologies.com> wrote: > I agree with that, if it were on codeplex, I would probably be more apt to > dig through the source myself to work through some of the things that give > me fits. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] > Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2010 5:49 PM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.5 Source Code > > I would like to see it on Codeplex like other Microsoft projects. > > Neil > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dieter Lunn [mailto:coder2...@gmail.com] > Sent: 24 April 2010 23:43 > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.5 Source Code > > Has there been any discussion of moving to a different VCS like SVN, Git or > Mercurial? > > Dieter Lunn > http://www.coder2000.ca > > > > On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Rob Mensching <r...@robmensching.com> > wrote: > > 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-m > >> ach > >> 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? With every weekly > >> release you are providing wix-sources.zip which is more or less > complete. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> --------- _______________________________________________ > >> WiX-users mailing list > >> WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > virtually, Rob Mensching - http://RobMensching.com LLC > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -------- _______________________________________________ > > WiX-users mailing list > > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > -- virtually, Rob Mensching - http://RobMensching.com LLC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
