[indiana-discuss] Brief (blogged) thoughts on packaging

Alberto Ruiz aruiz at gnome.org
Fri Jul 20 16:04:35 PDT 2007


2007/7/20, Jason J. W. Williams <jasonjwwilliams at gmail.com>:
> XML-based would be very nice. Even it were just an XML-build language
> that generated the final package ala the WiX project for MSIs
> (http://wix.sourceforge.net/). One of the nice things about using an
> XML build language is integration with an automated build process.
>

Have you used WiX? I did, and I don't even found words in my mother
tongue to tell you how broken it is in terms of maintanability, 60% of
that is due to the XML thing.

Let's talk about the problems that we want to solve instead to
focusing on which technologies would be cool to use.


-- 
Un saludo,
Alberto Ruiz



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