[mapguide-internals] About the WiX installer

[Jason Birch]

I believe that I can test on all of these; may take me a while to set up
the images.  

#360 should be do-able; maybe create an app pool called MapGuide2.1.
#361 would be harder because you would have to somehow enumerate the
websites, and the modify a custom UI to allow the user to set the
website property.  I would personally give both of these a pass for at
least the beta version of the installer.

It looks like for IIS7 (Vista/W2k8) we will need to use a custom action;
the built-in WiX stuff does not support IIS7 and it doesn't look like it
will for quite a while.  See this conversation:

http://tinyurl.com/ccll7p

For IIS6, here are some cool snippets:

http://tinyurl.com/5jfnm9
 
BTW, Stack Overflow _rules_  Check out these WiX questions:

http://tinyurl.com/arlt56

  I think we should adopt the "alias" method of referring to wixlib
directories; this is the part I was missing about making them modular.
This way the main project needs to know about the libraries, but not
vice versa...

http://tinyurl.com/djo7pa

  More IIS6 tips, including how to register IIS file extensions 

http://tinyurl.com/bnkffe

  I don't know if we need this for MapGuide (other than for REST
extension) but I'm going to find this useful personally.

BTW, Jackie, I think you're not using using the .bat files in
/Installer/Support/Paraffin?  If this is the case, these could be
removed.

To create custom UIs, WixEdit may be a good starting point:

http://wixedit.sourceforge.net/

Jason

-----Original Message-----
From: Jackie Ng
Sent: March-06-09 10:05 AM
To: mapguide-internals at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [mapguide-internals] About the WiX installer


Sure, send whatever you have my way.

On the IIS front, I do not have access to a Windows Server 2003 or
Vista, so
I can only test for XP.

I can't test IIS7 support, nor can I find out if I can kill trac tickets
#360 and #361.

- Jackie