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Windows installation package - unneeded dependencies #26
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I would suggest WIX for building MSI installers which support upgrades based on a fixed GUID. Proposal: join the Hacktoberfest to add some tickets/issues related to the above things. |
In the last PR #49 NSIS was used as setup engine. |
MSI packages are pretty much a requirement for deployment in enterprise environments. If we don't want to depend on Visual Studio's installer project add-on, a free and open source alternative to build a MSI installer is WiX. WiX comes with its own Visual Studio add-on, and is now in fact recommended by Microsoft themselves to write Windows installers Downside is that WiX isn't easy to use, and MSI itself has a pretty steep learning curve. But WiX is certainly the more "future-proof" choice |
https://github.com/italia/cie-middleware/tree/master/Setup currently relies on Javascript and ActiveX objects for performing all the available installer options (install, uninstall).
We should be probably looking at removing those unneeded dependencies by evaluating/adopting different frameworks:
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