Setup Matters

In a throwback to the mid-2000s, I spent a late Thursday night/Friday early morning collaborating with Rob on some gory WiX internals. Unlike the mid-2000s, it was virtual, I was 2000 miles away, I was responsible for my own refreshments, and it was recorded.

Today we did something we haven't done in a while: We had a short meeting. There were only a few issues to triage and none of them were controversial -- which, it turns out, is the most common reason we turn a small number of issues into a long meeting.

WiX v4.0.2 is now available.

Rob suggested I would control how long today's meeting lasted because many of the issues were mine and some that weren't had questions from me anyway. I countered that idea by suggesting that almost all meetings could go very quickly if everyone just agreed with me. You might notice that we held today's meeting anyway.

Our triage today was fairly noncontroversial and went quickly...mostly because we postponed the issue that we didn't finish last meeting. Don't worry; its time is coming.

Today is 8/8 so no matter which date format you use, it's the eighth day of the eighth month...unless you don't like base 10. Read on to hear about the status of WiX v4.0.2 and parts of WiX v5, in addition to our tried and true triage.