[wix-users] Open Source is must be EveryWhere (MBA using .Net)

Tue Jan 4 11:03:56 PST 2022

I think their argument was that .NET Framework is closed source, but .NET
Core is open source. Which doesn't make any sense, since .NET Framework is
a core component of the Windows OS which itself is closed source.

On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 12:39 PM Hoover, Jacob via wix-users <
wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:

> to use only open
>  source code.
>
>
> So publish your MBA on github and provide them the link?
>
>
> From: wix-users <wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> On Behalf Of
> Mike Henseler via wix-users
> Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2021 8:28 AM
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> Cc: Mike Henseler <m.henseler at simfront.com>
> Subject: Re: [wix-users] Open Source is must be EveryWhere (MBA using .Net)
>
> When I joined the company I am with now, everything was written in NSIS.
> I have since moved all our installers to MSI using WiX, but I sometimes
> use a compiled NSIS script to do CustomActions. Since a lot of the actions
> were already written in NSIS script.
>
> I launch the NSIS compiled script.exe (CA) without a UI or in silent mode.
> In my case there is no CustomAction data handling required with these
> script, but if you needed to pass properties, you could pass them as cmd
> line arguments to the NSIS script.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wix-users <wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org<mailto:
> wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org>> On Behalf Of Mike Henseler via
> wix-users
> Sent: December 14, 2021 9:14 AM
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> Cc: Mike Henseler <m.henseler at simfront.com<mailto:m.henseler at simfront.com
> >>
> Subject: Re: [wix-users] Open Source is must be EveryWhere (MBA using .Net)
>
> You could write a bootstrapper using open source NSIS script (Nullsoft
> Scriptable Install System) https://nsis.sourceforge.io/Main_Page<
> https://nsis.sourceforge.io/Main_Page>
> use Modern UI
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wix-users <wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org<mailto:
> wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org>> On Behalf Of ??????? ????????
> via wix-users
> Sent: December 14, 2021 8:44 AM
> To: Rob Mensching <rob at firegiant.com<mailto:rob at firegiant.com>>
> Cc: Тимофей Евсюткин <goldghost.oomphi.suppository at gmail.com<mailto:
> goldghost.oomphi.suppository at gmail.com>>; WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <
> wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org<mailto:wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>>
> Subject: Re: [wix-users] Open Source is must be EveryWhere (MBA using .Net)
>
> Unfortunately, we need it because it's one of the requirements for product
> certification and also it's a new requirement from the cybersecurity
> department that applies to the runtime of compiled programming languages.
>
> We designed a simple bootstrapper in C/C++ 15 years ago.
> But I don't know how to make an attractive and modern UI in C/C++. Thus,
> it will be a new challenge.
>
> I hope that WiX v4 will be released as soon as possible. Wish success.
>
>
> вт, 14 дек. 2021 г. в 19:46, Rob Mensching <rob at firegiant.com<mailto:
> rob at firegiant.com>>:
>
> > WiX v4 will have support for .NET Core based BAs. In WiX v3, it'd be
> > easiest to use C/C++ to use "only open source code".
> >
> > Curious: Why do you need "to use only open source code"?
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: wix-users <wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org<mailto:
> wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org>> On Behalf Of
> > ??????? ???????? via wix-users
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2021 2:53 AM
> > To: wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org<mailto:wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org
> >
> > Cc: Тимофей Евсюткин <goldghost.oomphi.suppository at gmail.com<mailto:
> goldghost.oomphi.suppository at gmail.com>>
> > Subject: [wix-users] Open Source is must be EveryWhere (MBA using
> > .Net)
> >
> > Hello to all!
> >
> > As you know, the .NET Framework is not open.
> > However .Net and .Net Core are.
> >
> > We use WIX 3.11 to create installers, pack them into a bundle with a
> > custom MBA that is built using .Net Framework and WPF.
> > We have received an important request recently: to use only open
> > source code.
> > We need to create a work plan for how we achieve this goal for the
> > next year.
> >
> > So, is it possible with WIX nowadays? How?
> > Are there any examples of implementation and documentation?
> > Do you have any suggestions when it will be possible?
> >
> > Thanks for your hard work!
> >
> >
> > --
> > Best Regards, Timofey Evsyutkin
> > P.H.D., Software Engineer
> >
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