Eric Kenslow wrote in message. > InstallShield really took a turn for the worse in the 3.x to >5.x downgrade. > We are seriously considering writing our own setup package. If >there are any frustrated InstallShield developers who'd like to come >work for us and write a decent in-house setup package, just let us >know. Those who are happy with current InstallShield products need not >apply. My most frustrating software development experience this year has been to shell out close to $1,000 for InstallShield and then to have to spend countless hours afterwards working around and dealing with the shortcomings you described along with others you didn't. Surely if my company has spent many thousands of dollars of our time doing so, there must be many millions of dollars spent across the industry trying to make InstallShield work as it should.
I can't understand how InstallShield can be so out of touch with the real needs of real software developers. Do they not use source code control systems there? Do they not have teams of developers working on a product with an automated build machine doing regular builds? It has taken a LOT of time to figure out how to force InstallShield (version 5.x) to work in those types of environments. I've sent InstallShield my comments before, and I've read many posts like yours, but I have yet to hear anything that convinces me that things are going to change. Our next project here will be evaluating other installer options. However, if anyone out there wants to start an open source installer initiative, sign me up.
Every time we code up some basic installation function (that InstallShield should have handled to begin with), I have to wonder how many times that work is being duplicated out there. I need to be able to spend my time adding value in my unique way, rather than dealing with common installation issues. I'd gladly invest thousands of dollars of time towards some kind of pooled, open source effort if it would eventually solve this problem once and for all. Benjamin Yeager. InstallShield really took a turn for the worse in the 3.x to 5.x downgrade. Here are the issues: 1.
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View an InstallScript cabinet file (.cab) or InstallScript header file (.hdr), as well as their compressed files, registry entries, components, features, and other data.
Command line building 3.x had a nice, simple command line-oriented interface. It was a real development tool. It integrated well with automated builds with makefiles and revision control. 5.x is a child's toy with delusions of grandeur- all puff and no substance. 3.x's ICOMP and even COMPILE were miles ahead of the ISBuild tool. Custom, broken compressed file format WHY is it called.CAB? It's not a standard cab file, standard tools do not work on it.
If you need to make a small change to the compressed file after it's built, you have to rebuild the entire project. The IDE is extremely hard to use, and I can't escape it for even the simplest task For some reason, the IDE developers decided to abandon virtually every text editing convention in existence. *Selection* doesn't even work right in 5.1! *Search and Replace* could cause an infinite loop! Obviously the IS guys aren't using their own editor. The registry editor is truly a masterpiece of frustration. I'd like to meet the individual who decided to take the hierarchical registry and represent it as a flat list of keys.
If you create two neighbor keys, you end up having to type out 'SOFTWARE Company Key1' and then 'SOFTWARE Company Key2', each in their entirety. Soal uas bahasa inggris kelas 6 sd semester 1 2017. If you have more than a few keys it's completely unmanageable. Also, there's no provision for not overwriting existing values in an upgrade situation; you have to write code for this very basic operation.
Revision control A 'Hello, InstallShield' dummy project (for Intel NT 4.0 only) created *137* files and directories. This is without adding any file groups or components, or modifying anything in the project. This is ridiculous to manage with revision control, where each file must be added separately. It forces the setup developer to do a manual sweep through the whole massive project tree to see if any new files have been added by the IDE, every time the project is modified.