Rob, could I suggest that as a first step we (I don't mind helping if that helps) get the source zip file working? At the moment it is not complete and that is why I use CVS. Also, as of 3.5.1623.0 it fails to build due to missing/incorrect files.
Neil -----Original Message----- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Sent: 25 April 2010 06:27 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: 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
