Thankfully those instructions are somewhat easy atleast. Some of these "how to create an admin install" are horribly complex.
To me, as a paying customer at a very, very large enterprise, it annoys the hell out of me. Don't make me figure out how to do this for all of the systems that I support. Just give me a download link to the darn ISO. Something the build/release team could have done just once and published now has to be redone over and over by thousands of organizations. I'm sorry, I just don't get it on this one. ---------------------------------------- From: "John H Bergman (XPedient)" <john.berg...@xpdnt.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 1:04 PM To: "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Wow! To reinforce a comment earlier about this being Microsoft's apparent direction as well, The latest SSDT (SQL Development Tools) uses the same methodology of the /layout switch. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/hh297027 John -----Original Message----- From: James Johnston [mailto:johnst...@inn-soft.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 10:26 AM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Wow! And this is why there needs to be a simple "off-line bundle" file ready to download. Seems like it shouldn't be too hard to include in the WiX build process, and would make a lot of people's lives easier. Realistically, I don't think there's a better solution than utilizing the built-in file downloader in a web browser for pulling in the archive. Anything else just makes it more complicated and unfamiliar for the user... Dog-fooding is a great idea; having a web setup available is a good idea for that reason. Just don't make this the only option... Here's an idea: have the capability of providing both web setups and generating premade off-line bundles ready for download and dog-food that. I'm sure many setup authors (myself included) will want to provide only premade off-line bundles, or both premade off-line bundles and web setups (i.e. having more than *just* a web setup). Dog-food that! :) -----Original Message----- From: Tobias S [mailto:tobias.s1...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 09:22 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Wow! Interesting discussion. That brought me to the point to run wix36.exe /layout. As expected in a firewall protected company environment the web bootstrapper didn't work (see below log). Also I expect different behaviors in different company environments using different "web download proxy virus scanners" (or as these things are called). I think doing an implementation for all that is almost impossible. But what about an approach to spend burn an additional parameter to get a list of URLs (e.g. /downloadurls ). Imho almost every firewall should be able to handle manual downloading of MSI files. Not very comfortable but at least an approach to get an offline image in a company environment... Regards, Tobias [1BE8:1094][2012-03-06T10:10:56]: Caching bundle from: 'C:\Users\MyUser\AppData\Local\Temp\{53bade28-8480-4557-92fc-13a20c501a3e}\. be\WiX36.exe' to: 'C:\ProgramData\Package Cache\{53bade28-8480-4557-92fc-13a20c501a3e}\WiX36.exe' [1BE8:1094][2012-03-06T10:10:56]: Registering bundle dependency provider: {53bade28-8480-4557-92fc-13a20c501a3e}, version: 3.6.2627.0 [1D50:1394][2012-03-06T10:11:17]: Error 0x80072efd: Failed to send request to URL: http://wixtoolset.org/releases/3.6.2627.0/data/core.msi [1D50:1394][2012-03-06T10:11:17]: Error 0x80072efd: Failed to send request to URL: http://wixtoolset.org/releases/3.6.2627.0/data/core.msi [1D50:1394][2012-03-06T10:11:17]: Error 0x80072efd: Failed to connect to URL: http://wixtoolset.org/releases/3.6.2627.0/data/core.msi [1D50:1394][2012-03-06T10:11:17]: Error 0x80072efd: Failed to get size and time for URL: http://wixtoolset.org/releases/3.6.2627.0/data/core.msi [1D50:1394][2012-03-06T10:11:17]: Error 0x80072efd: Failed attempt to download URL: 'http://wixtoolset.org/releases/3.6.2627.0/data/core.msi' to: 'C:\Users\MyUser\AppData\Local\Temp\{53bade28-8480-4557-92fc-13a20c501a3e}\W ix' [1D50:1394][2012-03-06T10:11:17]: Error 0x80072efd: Failed to acquire payload from: 'http://wixtoolset.org/releases/3.6.2627.0/data/core.msi' to working path: 'C:\Users\MyUser\AppData\Local\Temp\{53bade28-8480-4557-92fc-13a20c501a3e}\W ix' [1D50:1394][2012-03-06T10:11:17]: Failed to acquire payload: Wix to working path: C:\Users\MyUser\AppData\Local\Temp\{53bade28-8480-4557-92fc-13a20c501a3e}\Wi x, error: 0x80072efd. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! 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