[wix-users] WIX - MSIX?

[John Ludlow]

1. I personally don't consider it to be mature, mostly because of the state
Windows Store is in. It's always a pain to update Windows Terminal on my
work laptop because it uses MSIX and our IT department have made that
difficult by breaking Windows Store (they were trying to make a curated
store for our company, failed and left it broken).

And proprietary, commercial apps would be difficult to release unless the
Windows Store saw some substantial changes.

2. It is very much that. TBF I'd welcome a simpler package format that
still had some capacity for custom logic but I'm not sure MSIX is that in
its current form.

3. https://www.firegiant.com/products/wix-expansion-pack/msix/

Visual Studio and Office still use WiX IIRC, with bundled MSI packages
behind a custom bootstrapper application.

On Sat, 27 Aug 2022, 03:48 Greg McPherran via wix-users, <
wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:

> Thank you, you are right...
>
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/msix/supported-platforms
>
> ...but we are both right because it's not "natively" supported:
> See "Services..." and "Server support..." sections
>
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/msix/desktop/managing-your-msix-deployment-targetdevices
>
> That 2nd link still concerns me because it sounds like hoops to jump
> through on Windows Server and installations already have more than
> enough hoops to jump through. :-) :-)
>
> 1. This goes back to my original question: Is MSIX mature yet and should
> MSIX be preferred to MSI? My answer is no, at least for now, but I seek
> opinions.
>
> 2. I have concerns that MSIX is a lightweight local user "app"
> installer. Happy to be corrected if I'm wrong. Is MSIX one of those
> per-user installers that by default places apps into local\AppData\...
> and similar?
>
> 3. If MSIX is indeed meant for serious enterprise and commercial
> applications, does WIX plan MSIX support and tools to help with
> migration from MSI to MSIX?
>
> One of the things I look at is whether the vendor uses their own elixir
> :-) Misrosoft may use MSIX for solitaire and Photos apps but MSIX
> certainly doesn't appear to be used for Visual Studio or MS Office. This
> also leads me to think that even if MSIX is or becomes fully mature, it
> will still only apply to "apps" as opposed to major applications.
>
> Thank You,
> Greg McPherran
>
> ------ Original Message ------
> From "Jesse Brown via wix-users" <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> To "Jesse Brown via wix-users" <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> Cc "Jesse Brown" <jpbrown at remware.com>
> Date 2022-08-26 9:45:33 PM
> Subject Re: [wix-users] WIX - MSIX?
>
> >"Concurrent Multiuser"  Talk about typos.
> >
> >On 8/26/22 8:42 PM, Jesse Brown via wix-users wrote:
> >>I think it must be since Windows Server 2019 is basically mulituser
> Win10...
> >>
> >>On 8/26/22 5:16 PM, Greg McPherran via wix-users wrote:
> >>> >> MSIX is not natively supported on Windows
> >>>Meant Windows Server (huge typo :-) )
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>------ Original Message ------
> >>>From "Greg McPherran via wix-users" <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> >>>To "WiX Toolset Users Mailing List" <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> >>>Cc "Greg McPherran" <GMcPherran at WebSoftHost.com>
> >>>Date 2022-08-26 4:26:19 PM
> >>>Subject [wix-users] WIX - MSIX?
> >>>
> >>>>Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>>I see information in various places that implies that MSIX is
> obsoleting MSI. However, when I looked into MSIX, it appears to no be fully
> mature and I plan to stay with MSI (just one example - MSIX is not natively
> supported on Windows). Any thoughts on whether MSI will be obsolete? If so,
> I don't think it would happen in the near future at all. Does WIX plan
> migration path to MSIX?
>
>
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