I played with SharpSetup for an hour. I see some value, especially getting started, but these neatly integrated things often end up being more of a drag and time saved upfront has a very long tail.
I think it's an interesting idea that the Wix GUI editor is actually a form editor that uses c# code as a back-end. Then I assume it compiles into wix. Looks clever. I am particularly not excited by the bootstrapper in SharpSetup. Having contributed to a large set of features in dotnetinstaller for over a year now I think that the effort required to build a really good bootstrapper is extremely large. A good bootstrapper for MSIs should host them and drive their execution with unified progress, ways to ask questions once and apply the answers to multiple installers, etc. My favorite bootstrapper is SQL Server 2005 or 2008. Sounds like burn will be "it", albeit in a while. All the above worth about 0.02c :) dB. @ dblock.org Moscow|Geneva|Seattle|New York -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@deploymentengineering.com] Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2010 7:36 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Finally a GUI solution with WiX I've also released IsWiX on Codeplex ( http://iswix.codeplex.com ) It's still in it's infancy but I can say we've used it at my day job for the last 9 months by about 20 developers and it's working really well for our needs. Currently we use it for the heavy lifting of defining merge modules, dependencies and files/folders. We use Votive for additional markups such as shortcuts and services but hopefully additional designers will be forthcoming to abstract that also. The sharpsetup project looks interesting. I need to do a deep dive on it while I'm waiting to see if burn ever gets done. Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me ----- Original Message ---- From: Michael Clark <mcl...@fullarmor.com> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Thu, May 13, 2010 4:01:33 PM Subject: [WiX-users] Finally a GUI solution with WiX I was just getting ready to start a new WiX project except it was looking like I would have to do a lot of custom GUI, then I came across this http://sharpsetup.eu/ -Michael Clark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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 No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.819 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2872 - Release Date: 05/13/10 14:26:00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
