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[prog]

I'm giving up and buying Advanced Installer.

I made a little bit of progress with WiX, but I just know that it will take days more research and frustration before I figure out how to do that Java trick, and it's just not worth my time. I hate paying so much for a program, but I play through a scenario in my mind where a friend makes a scriptable installer for us and we gladly pay him $300. That makes it easier to swallow.

As daerr just noted in conversation, it's kind of weird that we don't know any Windows developers or release engineers who can help us with this. I mean, Windows. That's what the whole of the outside world uses, isn't it? You'd think at least some of our friends, though they're all Unix-n-Mac freaks like us, would know how to do that stuff anyway. But alas.

Comments

[karlvonl.livejournal.com]

Well, I've worked extensively on our Windows installer at my workplace... using InstallShield. I don't think that helps you. :-)

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

I work with Windows plenty, but that's the thing - software development is such a PitA on Windows that people only do it if paid to do it. All the software I write for Windows is in Perl or PostScript, and I don't have to install or compile it.

[misuba.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure "just buy something" is how most Windows development is done.