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by EvanAnderson 1283 days ago
Yeah, but who uses MSIs? Windows Installer is just a flash in the pan. It's so much easier to just make an Inno Setup-based SETUP.EXE. /s

It makes me shudder to think how many hours (days? weeks?) of my life I'd have back if developers had just packaged their Windows application as MSIs instead of making me, as a sysadmin who wants consistently updated client computers, do it for them.
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vbezhenar 1283 days ago
vscode does not provide MSI for download. Even Microsoft can't be bothered to do it.
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EvanAnderson 1283 days ago
The inmates have been running the asylum at Microsoft for a number of years now. I assume it’s necessary to re-invent wheels, badly, for career advancement. (That’s not to say that MSI is particular nice, but it works reasonably well and saves a lot of downstream headaches.)
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sllewe 1283 days ago
MSFT provides a method to repackage .EXE into a deployable package (named: Intunewin).

https://github.com/microsoft/Microsoft-Win32-Content-Prep-To...

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