[WiX-devs] wix

[Orion E. <or...@co...>]

Hi, just found this: =
http://blogs.msdn.com/robmen/archive/2004/04/14/112970.aspx on the web.
(where rob says 'don't submit patches, get an agreement from MS, then =
mail them to us').

I un-knowingly submitted a patch to wix on sourceforge (the one about =
adding the $(guid) variable. Minor, and probably useless I know, but =
still I wondered why it sat there with no input whatsoever =
(http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=3D642716&group_id=3D105970&func=3Db=
rowse)).=20

A suggestion would be to either redirect the 'patches' page on =
sourceforge to go to that blog entry by rob, or else put some other =
easily findable notice on that page to avoid confusion such as mine in =
the future.

As far as the assignment agreement goes - is it really neccessary (in =
this case)? My patch is only 6 lines or so, and may be judged by some as =
being useless and in the wrong place. If so, that's perfectly fine by =
me, I just thought it would be useful at the time and decided to be a =
good boy scout and post the patch back)
I would like there to be at least some feedback though... Just a =
psychological thing I suppose.

At any rate, thanks for wix. I'm in the process of porting existing =
msi's over to it and can provide a full-gui / upgrade / etc enabled =
sample app written in wix if such a thing doesn't already exist or is =
wanted. If it does already exist, where is it? :-)

Thanks a lot, Orion Edwards.