Windows Installer

[Cantor, Scott]

On 8/16/14, 12:10 PM, "Rod Widdowson" <rdw at steadingsoftware.com> wrote:
>
>1) Where (in SVN) are we going to keep the installer source?
>
>I would suggest that it goes into a subdirectory as a peer of all the
>other
>idp-projects, but that we do not teach maven anything about it until we
>have
>any specific windows code.  Or would we be better having it a maven aware
>from day 1 (just in case).

Are you suggesting trying to use Maven to run Wix? I guess we could try...

>2) (Windows Specific) How do we want to orchestrate the build process?  I
>initially thought that we had four options
>
> - Batch File
> - Hyperscript
> - Within VisualStudio/MsBuild
> - Nmake
>
>I¹ve pretty much come to the conclusion that we have to use a batch
>script:

I suspect that's the least objectionable. Using VS just brings in a
dependency we don't have now, as does Nmake I suspect (they used to make
that freely available, I'm betting they don't anymore?).

But that suggests you weren't suggesting using Maven above...

-- Scott