Thank you for the answer, Rob.
> From: r...@robmensching.com
> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 14:22:33 -0800
> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Running Burn-driven installer in quiet mode (command
> line parameters)
>
> 1. /? is there. The WiX Standard Bootstrapper Application just doesn't
> support it yet. You can see bits and pieces where it will go.
>
> 2. Yes, the XxxPackage/@Name can contain relative paths.
>
> 3. Right. The command-line is provided very early because you could
> technically create different Bootstrapper Applications based on the switches
> (for example a "passive" BA vs. a "full-UI" BA).
>
> 4. Yeah, that's a bug in the documentation. The term "User Experience" or
> "UX" is still littered all over the place. We changed it to "Bootstrapper
> Application" or "BA" because there was this constant confusion that the "UX"
> (aka: "BA") only displayed UI. That is not the case. The BA drives the
> process. Burn is just an engine that abstracts away a lot of the ugly lower
> level details.
>
> One of my primary goals with Burn was to build a bootstrapper that could
> finally subsume all the boostrapper in Microsoft. Every team seems to have
> their own home rolled bootstrapper (of various qualities) that do things a
> little different from everyone else. Heck, Visual Studio has 5 (5!)
> different bootstrapper it uses for itself. They are slowly centralizing on
> Burn (it'll take a while).
>
> The downside is that while the engine is powerful and flexible, there is
> more work to do in layers above the engine. I made a big push through
> November and December to get the standard bootstrapper application together
> so that there was at least something with basic functionality and could
> serve as an example. I also switched the WiX BA to be managed code to
> demonstrate how to write a BA in WPF. That was actually pretty fun.
> Anyway, bits and pieces are all here and now its a matter of bringing them
> together (fixing bugs). Then the primary focus can move out of the engine
> and on to the WiX Standard BA to make it more configurable, prettier, etc.
>
> And that is the method to the madness.
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