Re: [ros-dev] 1294 [dreimer] Fix clean for cmake trees. ...

[Zachary Gorden]

The amount of functionality that MSIs offer comes with a price.  Some of us
believe it is worth it.  Some don't.  We, meaning Daniel and myself, want a
MSI installer.  If someone else wants to maintain the NSIS installer, we
will not stop them.  We just won't offer any help doing so since we (Daneil
and myself) want a MSI installer.

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Adam <geekdundee(a)gmail.com> wrote:

>   So having a service running all the time just to
> install programs, and
>  having to not be able to uninstall a program cleanly if the MSI file has
>  been moved/deleted (or if the MSI file that was copied into some obscure
>  place in the %SYSTEMROOT% path) or due to some other sort of failure,
>  provides an error, is clean is it? Not to mention it will be impossible to
>  uninstall in Safe Mode (should it be necessary) since MSIEXEC refuses to run
>  under Safe Mode these days.
>
>  Never tried WiX before, but the problem wouldn't be WiX - it would be
>  MSIEXEC and the way it works.
>
>
>  On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 07:35:56 +1000, Ged Murphy <gedmurphy(a)gmail.com>
>  wrote:
>
>   Are you serious? Have you ever used WiX in a serious capacity?
> >   It's far superior to NSIS in pretty much
> > every way.
> >
> >
> >  On 2 June 2011 22:18, Adam <geekdundee(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > >   I do not like the idea of moving to Windows
> > > Installer for RosBE 2.0 - it
> > >  can
> > >  be quite tedious to clean up if the install is half done. IMO the
> > >  original
> > >  installer (NSIS) is much more cleaner than Windows Installer too.
> > >
> > >  If it ain't broke don't fix it I say.
> > >
> > >  On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 06:52:17 +1000, Colin Finck <colin(a)reactos.org>
> > >  wrote:
> > >
> > >   dreimer(a)svn.reactos.org wrote:
> > > >    > if not exist "CMakeLists.txt" (
> > > >
> > > >  Can we decide on dropping support for rbuild stuff in RosBE 2.0?
> > > >  Reasons:
> > > >
> > > >  - RosBE 2.0 will certainly come with an updated set of build tools.
> > > >   (GCC 4.6 with mingw-w64 target is planned, maybe even a multilib
> > > >   version)
> > > >   The target change already makes older builds uncompilable with RosBE
> > > >   2.0. Even if this would be fixed, nobody would guarantee you that a
> > > >   revision built with RosBE 2.0 behaves the same as one compiled with
> > > >   1.5.x.
> > > >  - Several versions of RosBE can be installed parallely, especially if
> > > >   you're also moving to a Windows Installer for RosBE 2.0, which doesn't
> > > >   care about Uninstall entries of NSIS. So everybody has the option
> > > >   to build older rbuild-powered revisions at any time.
> > > >  - It could make all scripts cleaner again :-)
> > > >
> > > >  Regards,
> > > >
> > > >  Colin
> > > >
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