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

[Adam]

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 at 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 at 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 at reactos.org>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> dreimer at 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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