tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9537945.post394569150769579857..comments2023-08-20T04:16:39.520-05:00Comments on Deployment Engineering Archive: More Interesting and Uninteresting CommentsChristopher Painterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12167478740431444267noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9537945.post-38099834413315696452007-11-30T15:52:00.000-06:002007-11-30T15:52:00.000-06:00I agree, in a micropackaged chained setup environm...I agree, in a micropackaged chained setup environment, the cummulative overhead could be considerable.<BR/><BR/>But consider this, C++ Type 1 CA's written in Visual Studio 2005 have the same problem. The general consensus now is to statically link the CRT libs into your DLL to avoid dependency problems at runtime. This add's about 1MB to the CA DLL.Christopher Painterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12167478740431444267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9537945.post-21349680551757652702007-11-30T14:35:00.000-06:002007-11-30T14:35:00.000-06:00Chris,I'm not weighing in on the InstallScript CA ...Chris,<BR/>I'm not weighing in on the InstallScript CA issue per se (you already know I don't like them, for many of the same reasons Carl listed). I just wanted to point out your reply to Stefan's size issue is really only valid for large packages (as you said). However, consider the upcoming MSI 4.5 chaining ablities. You will now be able to write an external UI handler to process multiple Colby Ringeisenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08696301684260588101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9537945.post-44959225976858767262007-11-30T08:30:00.000-06:002007-11-30T08:30:00.000-06:00Hi Carl- I'm the first to acknowledge that the *o...Hi Carl-<BR/> I'm the first to acknowledge that the *old* InstallScript engine had major DCOM/ROT problems. I wrote a blog on this subject where I pointed out that the problems were so bad that they created a support site on their own. But I feel it's a bit dishonest to use this as a reason to hate InstallScript considering that the complete redesign that occurred in IS12 was nearly 2 years Christopher Painterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12167478740431444267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9537945.post-870992252209998692007-11-30T05:38:00.000-06:002007-11-30T05:38:00.000-06:00Hi Christoper,Carl hereReasons for disliking Insta...Hi Christoper,<BR/>Carl here<BR/><BR/>Reasons for disliking InstallScript:<BR/>Until InstallShield 12 the engine simply did not work. About 1% of all installs failed. The same problem has dogged every version since 3. It hung, crashed or refused to work. I make no distinction between the InstallScript MSI and an MSI with InstallScript CAs because they both fail unexpectedly.<BR/><BR/>As Rob Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com