[wix-users] WIX - MSIX?

[Jesse Brown]

Thanks.  I will never post from the phone again.

On 9/6/22 7:05 AM, John Ludlow via wix-users wrote:
> 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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