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Comment by beagle3

11 years ago

I've been out of the Windows deployment ecosystem for ages. What's the benefit of using WiX over nsis?

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ygra  11 years ago

You get Windows Installer packages, so you can deploy applications via group policies, you get other niceties, like pretending an application is installed until it's actually used (and install then), you get proper transaction support during the installation (something I've seen very many NSIS installers get wrong – maybe that has changed, but not cleaning up after yourself if a step during the installation failed is not how to write an installer).