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Considering the core WiX development team including Rob Mensching & Bob Arnson plus others such as Phil Wilson (author of "The Definitive Guide to Windows Installer") actively contribute to the mailing list on a daily if not weekly basis I think that might qualify as both active &
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Thanks - I spent a little bit of time yesteday with the various installers trying to make them more consistent. As for the owner of WIX, it's defintely MS - typing candle.exe /? shows this:
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Could anyone attempt to explain *why* the components are called candle, light etc...is it a pun on "wick" (part of a candle)? Also, there seems to be another component called
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It's a 3rd party tool developed & distributed outside the WiX toolset. Page should reflect this as it wrongly reads as if it's part of the core WiX tools currently
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Thanks for that. I really did not understand this article at all as it had so much techno-jargon in it, and the Wix.com article was what I was looking for anyway.
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The infobox is nice, but it says Develooper = Microsoft. Don't think this is correct - Microsoft holds the copyright but the development is open source. --
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candle.exe Microsoft (R) Windows Installer Xml Compiler version 3.0.2925.0 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 2003. All rights reserved.
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This is the first time I've used an infobox, so wasn't sure of the format. I'll put Rob as the developer, and MS as the owner.
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on Knowledge (XXG). If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
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http://www.outercurve.org/Blogs/EntryId/58/WiX-joins-the-Outercurve-Foundation
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http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2005/12/22/How-the-WiX-toolset-got-its-name
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References are listed, but not placed in article - where the belong.
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And the license has changed since this edit was made...
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meatclerk
07:34, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
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05:44, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2005/12/22/How-the-WiX-toolset-got-its-name
Malibu Stacey
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