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@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@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@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@reactos.org> wrote:

dreimer@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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