[Lazarus] Installer recommendations

[Henry Vermaak]

On 31 July 2011 22:43, Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 31 July 2011 22:39, Henry Vermaak wrote:
>> It's an interface to the Windows Installer where you define all the
>> specifics of your project in an XML file.  It the compiles and links
>> into an msi file.
>
> I can't comment on WiX (never knew about it), but I can say our
> company had terrible experiences with Windows Installer (msi files).
> Apps kept restoring, it's a bitch to actually uninstall an app,
> upgrading apps where a nightmare too. So much so, what we reverted
> back to an old version of InstallShield Developer.  So I guess your
> mileage my vary. :-/

Probably a badly constructed msi file.  Who made it?  I've never had
bad installers with wix generated msi (and I've made hundreds).  It
compiles the xml first, so it can give warnings/errors.

Henry