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by flukus 3563 days ago
What if I'm using something more modern, like chocoaltey? MSI has never played well with CI servers and wix is way too complicated.
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benaadams 3563 days ago
Nano server (variant of Server 2016) which has no UI component at all has adopted the appx for Windows Server apps (WSA) so I'd imagine the tooling will improve there.

Though you can also build one with a text editor and command line: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/nanoserver/2015/11/19/ha...

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flukus 3563 days ago
> Though you can also build one with a text editor and command line

That's exactly the sort of thing I'm after, thanks. I hate it when configuration is hidden in favor of tooling.

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benaadams 3563 days ago
Also manual conversion steps without installer: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/porting/desktop...
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Already__Taken 3562 days ago
Seems like they want MSI to go away. I'm finding it harder and harder to find published ones.
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flukus 3562 days ago
The kind of tried it years ago by not including setup projects in visual studio (MS Developers think publishing directly from VS is a good idea), the problem was there wasn't a better alternative.

I didn't mind NSIS (nullsoft of winamp fame), but it was weird to say the least. Install scripts were a high level, domain specefic variant of assembly...

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douche 3562 days ago
We switched to Advanced Installer when that happened.

Now I notice that probably 50% of the MSIs that I run are using the AdvancedInstaller dialog skins.

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