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Add MSI Packager Recipe #138

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corygalyna opened this issue Nov 1, 2023 · 18 comments
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Add MSI Packager Recipe #138

corygalyna opened this issue Nov 1, 2023 · 18 comments
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corygalyna commented Nov 1, 2023 •
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Documents:

  1. https://wiki.gnome.org/msitools
  2. https://wiki.gnome.org/msitools/HowTo/CreateMSI
  3. https://wixtoolset.org/
  4. https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/msitools

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MSI installer packager is available.

Current Behavior

MSI installer packager is unavailable.

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@corygalyna corygalyna added the New Feature Case is about developing a new feature/aspect. label Nov 1, 2023
@hollowaykeanho hollowaykeanho self-assigned this Nov 6, 2023
@hollowaykeanho hollowaykeanho added the In Progress Someone is working on the case. label Nov 6, 2023
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hollowaykeanho commented Nov 8, 2023 •
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env ci job implemented at af2d7ec.

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Hey, no progress since 4 weeks ago? Stuck?

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Good morning. Yeah.. Windows side (.Net) stuffs with Wix4 alongside some ZORALab's client's stuffs.

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Need help?

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Should be fine.

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Still the same? No progress?

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Hard to progress on Windows side. GitHub Actions for Windows OS is having some weird glitches where a simple task requires an hour to run.

Issue was traced here: actions/runner-images#7320

I will drop this feature and merge in whatever we have. Then, we move on to other features.

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An hour?!

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No idea what happened in-between. Some non-parallel CI job like Materialize produced statics that doesn't make any sense.

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Ok. drop it then. Disable the MSI and move on to more critical features. 6-weeks in with no results. =.="

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Got. I just a Windows OS to run the last few remaining test. MSI was successfully built using Windows' Wix4 (at least for en-US). The last test is i18n.

@corygalyna corygalyna added the Blocked Case is being impeded by other internal issues or missing needs requiring to be resolved first. label Dec 4, 2023
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Hah... I just blocked it and place it back to bucket. We will see how it goes once GitHub makes Windows OS available again.

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Got it.. Will merge in once I finalized the patch as it is.

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hollowaykeanho commented Dec 4, 2023 •
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Archive research links for future continuation:

  1. https://wixtoolset.org/docs/schema/wxs/package/
  2. https://wixtoolset.org/docs/schema/wxs/ui/
  3. https://wixtoolset.org/docs/tools/wixext/wixui/#localization
  4. https://wixtoolset.org/docs/fourthree/faqs/
  5. https://www.cnblogs.com/strugt/p/13208537.html
  6. https://wixtoolset.org/docs/schema/wxs/package/
  7. Windows runners are consistently extremely slow compared to Linux and macOS actions/runner-images#7320
  8. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75879120/package-languages-in-wix-4

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So close to completion. If only you have access to a local Windows OS.

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Code merged in commit 4d00214

@hollowaykeanho hollowaykeanho added Done and Pending Release Completed and staging for next release. and removed In Progress Someone is working on the case. Blocked Case is being impeded by other internal issues or missing needs requiring to be resolved first. labels Dec 4, 2023
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after careful considerations, it's better to mark this as completed since we did produce MSI packages from the Windows side. Anything else we will just raise as new issue as bug report.

@hollowaykeanho hollowaykeanho added Released Implementation got released and shipped. and removed Done and Pending Release Completed and staging for next release. labels Mar 21, 2024
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Released in https://github.com/ChewKeanHo/AutomataCI/releases/tag/v2.0.0

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