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From: Steffan Karger <steffan@...1856...>
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Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 09:41:21 +0100
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Hi,

On 02-11-17 09:31, Samuli Seppänen wrote:
> On 01/11/2017 20:46, Simon Rozman wrote:
>>> Speaking of MSIs... we are planning on moving from NSIS to MSI due to
>>> security issues like the one we fixed in previous release. At the moment four
>>> (other) people who have expressed interest in taking part in the "create MSI
>>> installers for OpenVPN" project. One of these people is me.
>>>
>>> Would you be interested in joining forces in this task?
>>
>> I'd love to. Count me in!
> 
> Excellent!
> 
>> I have been in the MSI packaging for about 10 years now - automated builds from command line, developed DLL custom actions in C/C++, localization, GUI, WiX etc.
> 
> As you probably know, right now we produce Windows executables and
> installers on Linux using openvpn-build:
> 
> <https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn-build>
> 
> It seems that WiX which you mention would probably be our tool of
> choice, given it is open source (MS-RL):
> 
> <https://github.com/wixtoolset/wix3>
> <https://opensource.org/licenses/MS-RL>
> 
> Do you know if WiX runs in Mono? That would allow us to produce
> installers directly from openvpn-build without having to have a separate
> Windows packaging computer in the build chain.
> 

Any reason why you specifically want to use WiX?  Are msibuild or wixl
(from msitools[0]) not good enough?  I know those lack features, but if
they're good enough I would prefer using something that is packaged by
many distros (and doesn't need mono).

-Steffan

[0] https://wiki.gnome.org/msitools