Unfortunately plenty of folks still didn't got the memo MSI and MSIX exist.
replyUnfortunately, WiX is still a pain in the ass to use and there's a lot of simple tooling that makes NSIS/InnoSetup/etc shockingly easy to use while the same MSI experience is garbage.
replymsix is just a different beast entirely too.
What about using the Visual Studio packaging tools?
replyI live on .NET/C++ universe in regards to Windows development, so it might be it isn't as nice for not blessed stacks.
For some reason, that holds an appxbundle per the article. I'd suspect they needed to run some pre- or post-install code (maybe to check for their hardware?).
replyI mean I still build windows installers with NSIS which has somehow just-worked for decades.
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