Opened 2 years ago

Last modified 13 months ago

#9492 assigned enhancement

Would like a MSI installer

Reported by: Greg Couch Owned by: Greg Couch
Priority: moderate Milestone:
Component: Infrastructure Version:
Keywords: Cc: Zach Pearson
Blocked By: Blocking:
Notify when closed: Platform: all
Project: ChimeraX

Description

Many system administrators prefer MSI installers. See ​https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26846696:

"As a Windows sysadmin I pine for developers to use MSI. Having applications managed by the Windows Installer makes automated installation, removal, and repair so easy. MSI has its warts, to be sure, but "clean" MSIs (that don't rely on lots of custom actions, embed binaries that the just execute, etc) are a joy to work with."

Change History (2)

comment:1 by Greg Couch, 21 months ago

Priority: low → moderate

(Got a request on the chimera-users mailing list from clifford.raymond@… on 23 Jan 2024 for a MSI installer for use with Microsoft Intune.)

The WiX Toolset, ​https://wixtoolset.org/, is an open source toolkit for creating a MSI installer.

comment:2 by Greg Couch, 13 months ago

Cc: Zach Pearson added

Add Zach so he gets progress updates.

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