He's just installing the product itself and I think that it downloads .net if not already installed. I talked to him about it last night, and he said that because it was crunch time and beta time, he simply wanted a quick solution with less of a learning curve in order to get the product out in a timely fashion.
-----Original Message----- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 10:51 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] I have heard that MSI is too complicated from a programmer's prospective It seems a bit unfair to blame MSI for the SQL Server install. On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Katherine Moss <katherine.m...@gordon.edu>wrote: > Thanks; I wish that MSI could prove so simple for users though in some > of Microsoft's own products. Example? I had SQL server Express 2012 > on my server a few months ago, had to uninstall it to clear out some > errors, and are you kidding me? I had to reinstall the operating > system to reinstall it! Components got left behind, network share > errors abound (I was not even installing from the network!), > third-party uninstaller tools did not show the seemingly existing > components, and still no explanation from the sQL server team at > Microsoft! What does that tell you about MSI? It still appears to have it's > defects. Unless my case was an isolated incident? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@iswix.com] > Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 7:25 PM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.; General > discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. ( > wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net) > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] I have heard that MSI is too complicated from > a programmer's prospective > > MSI is complicated. Setup is complicated. There is a learning curve > but once you nail it, it's easy for your users. > > The key to MSI is that it's declarative (functional programming), > transactional and has standardized support for upgrades, patches, > uninstall, repair, silent and so on. Learn how to do all this and you > can crank out massively complex, scalable installers with very low defect > rates. > > Try to do that in any procedural (Wise, InstallScript, PowerShell, > VBScript, .BAT, NSIS, Inno, whatever..) language and you'll quickly > find yourself with tomes of buggy code and inconsistent installation behavior. > > I did the latter for 6 years before switching to MSI. I've been doing > MSI for 10 years. You can take what I say to the bank. > > ---------------------------------------- > From: "Katherine Moss" <katherine.m...@gordon.edu> > Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 2:46 PM > To: "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > (wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net)" <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Subject: [WiX-users] I have heard that MSI is too complicated from a > programmer's prospective > > Hi guys, > Since I am just learning to be a .NET C# programmer, can somebody shed > light on why using WiX over something like Inno would be more > complicated and why programmers are often less compelled to use WiX? > I'm asking this because my friend has got a project he's working on > where the main programmer is insistent on using Inno instead of WiX. > It's bothering me because if my friend wants his product to be more > administrator-friendly and compatible with group policy, doesn't he > need to be using MSI technologies? I mean, he wants that > administrative/ease-of-deployment across multiple servers/workstations > edge, but is he going to get it using Inno? And if not, then what can > I say to these people to help dispel the supposed "complications" of Windows > Installer? Thanks. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------ > -- > Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic > APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what > is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New > Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy > New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know > exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and > .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd > shirt too! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy > New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know > exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and > .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd > shirt too! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > -- virtually, Rob Mensching http://RobMensching.com LLC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
