Don't take this personally but this discussion should really be on the wix-devs not wix-users.
Palbinder Sandher Software Deployment & IT Administrator T: +44 (0) 141 945 8500 F: +44 (0) 141 945 8501 http://www.iesve.com **Design, Simulate + Innovate with the <Virtual Environment>** Integrated Environmental Solutions Limited. Registered in Scotland No. SC151456 Registered Office - Helix Building, West Of Scotland Science Park, Glasgow G20 0SP Email Disclaimer -----Original Message----- From: Wilbert van Dolleweerd [mailto:wilb...@arentheym.com] Sent: 27 April 2010 07:40 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.5 Source Code I would like to add my support for a move to Git or Mercurial (my personal favorite is Git, but Mercurial will do). In my personal experience using Git (and Github) makes it much easier for me to supply patches - this is an area in which I find Wix is lacking. Kudos for the tool though ;-) -- Kind regards, Wilbert van Dolleweerd Blog: http://walkingthestack.blogspot.com/ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/wvandolleweerd 2010/4/25 Dieter Lunn <coder2...@gmail.com> > 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-ma > ch > >> 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
