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by pjmlp 25 days ago
Unfortunately plenty of folks still didn't got the memo MSI and MSIX exist.
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indrora 25 days ago
Unfortunately, WiX is still a pain in the ass to use and there's a lot of simple tooling that makes NSIS/InnoSetup/etc shockingly easy to use while the same MSI experience is garbage.

msix is just a different beast entirely too.

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pjmlp 25 days ago
What about using the Visual Studio packaging tools?

I live on .NET/C++ universe in regards to Windows development, so it might be it isn't as nice for not blessed stacks.

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Pxtl 24 days ago
Didn't they discontinue those around VS 2015 or so? Its been a while since I tried. Iirc that's what got replaced with WiX and ClickOnce, both of which are 100X more complicated to use.
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pjmlp 24 days ago
Nope, it is the other way around, MSI became the official replacement for exe installers, and MSIX is the evolution of APPX from UWP/Windows Store and the "best practices" format going forward.

By VS packaging tools I mean tbe application project type that generates a MSIX as build outcome.

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