Setup Matters

Today's meeting was triage. Just triage. We had our normal incoming triage and we also started, as promised, to review the current slate of issues scheduled to be addressed in WiX v4. Refining that list will help us figure out when WiX v4 is ready for mass consumption and on the road to be released!

As promised, today we did our normal triage and we risked taunting the Demo Gods by having Rob run through the Windows Sandbox work I've done to run the WiX integration tests in a quick and easy virtual machine provided by Windows. Did the Demo Gods retaliate?

Today's meeting had only a handful of issues, none of which caused our (in)famous long design discussions, so we had our first meeting of less than 30 minutes in a long time. I'd hoped to share my findings about running the WiX runtime tests in Windows Sandbox but, alas, life interfered with that goal. Next meeting for sure!

Today's triage focused primarily on the rise of reports of problems installing Votive into the latest point release of Visual Studio 2022. My suggestion of going back to Notepad-based development was not broadly accepted. We're keeping an eye on the problem and hope to hear back from Visual Studio folks by the next meeting, so stay tuned.

As usual, today's meeting covered triage mixed with design discussions galore. Then, in response to questions from Ron watching live, we talked about how the WiX integration tests run during the CI build in virtual machines and how developers could run them on local VMs. Finally, Rob briefly announced a new prerelease build of WiX v3.14 is now available for download, containing all the latest changes and fixes in that branch.

Today's meeting was all about triage: six issues, to be precise. Does that mean today's meeting was a quick 20 minutes? Not exactly. As is our wont, we spent a lot of time in a handful of issues, with deep discussion and design. That's one of the great things about real-time communication and we take advantage of it whenever we can.