Bob just sent me a link to the Redis Manifesto via Twitter. He’s was supportive as I vented off some of this week’s frustrations. After reading the link, I believe Bob is right. I need to write the WiX Toolset Manifesto.
Original post by Rob Mensching
It is with great pleasure that I announce the WiX toolset’s new home is fully operational: http://wixtoolset.org. This site is now our central hub for information about the WiX toolset. We will consolidate the WiX content that makes sense and link to the WiX content hosted elsewhere. The most important feature back online right now is the weekly releases.
Original post by Rob Mensching
If I was a Microsoft executive I would start off by saying I’m super-excited to announce the release of the WiX v3.6 Beta. But I’m not. I’m just your friendly local WiX toolset benevolent dictator saying that WiX v3.6 is looking pretty good and we’d like to try it out. While Wix36.exe downloads, let’s talk a little bit about what’s in WiX v3.6 Beta and what is not.
Original post by Rob Mensching
It’s been nine months since the last "State of the WiX toolset" blog post and six months since the WiX v3.5 release. Unlike last year we find ourselves focused on a single front, WiX v3.6. Let’s take a moment and evaluate where we are and where we are going.
Original post by Rob Mensching
In the last few weeks, more people than usual sent me email saying they could not send email to the primary WiX toolset mailing list: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net. I do not know if settings changed on the SourceForge mail servers but here is what seems to be working.
Original post by Rob Mensching
The Visual Studio setup is composed of over 30,000 source files that get compiled into over 250 MSI files. Needless to say it is a large code base. The problem is that a lot of the code was machine generated and is now very difficult to maintain. A few months ago, I started a large scale restructuring effort to improve the code and build process. I thought I’d share one of the key aspects in my restructuring effort.
Original post by Rob Mensching
In the last few weeks, SourceForge apparently was attacked and they feared the passwords of all users were divulged. To protect everyone, SourceForge required all accounts to re-activate via a link sent through email or answering a secret question. This caught us off guard because we forgot the email address of the SF account used to manage the WiX SourceForge web site and releases page and there was no secret question. The result, WiX v3.6 builds are not being released.
Original post by Rob Mensching
It is my pleasure to announce that WiX toolset v3.5 is now officially declared Production/Stable. The final build number is 3.5.2519.0. You can download it from here.
Original post by Rob Mensching