tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9537945.post-65493146914087436142007-12-21T08:47:00.000-06:002007-12-21T08:47:00.000-06:00I agree with many of your points. However, at the end of the day, what the Windows Installer team fails to do, tools vendors or setup developers must do on their own. I completely agree that all of the various vendor add-on's such as InstallShield IIS/XML, WiX CA's should be refactored and adopted as standard action patterns. However the MSI team has shown for years now that it's just not a priority to them.<BR/><BR/>MSI was realeased in 1999. This was back in the day when the 200MHZ Pentium was pretty normal for a corporate environment. Processing power has radically improved since then and additional compression technologies should be supported. In other industries you see MPeg2 being replaced with Mpeg4/h.234 and others yet in MSI we keep sticking with the same old same old.<BR/><BR/>And I wouldn't say that LMZA `solves` the .NET problem... it's just a best effort to try to do something. But shouldn't every package have a best effort to be compressed as optimally as possible? I think so.Christopher Painterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12167478740431444267noreply@blogger.com