WiX Toolset: Introduce the Open Source Maintenance Fee

Re:WiX Toolset: Introduce the Open Source Maintenance Fee by 9cb14c1ec0 on Thursday July 24, 2025 @11:03AM (#44671582)

Yes, just a couple of minutes setting up a Github action on a fork, and you're good to go.

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Re:WiX Toolset: Introduce the Open Source Maintenance Fee by robmensching on Thursday July 24, 2025 @09:08PM (#44678328)

Yep, and now you have about half a million lines of code* to maintain as well. Have fun with it!*

* Last count the WiX Toolset had 589,719 loc but 444,936 if you skip comments and whitespace.

* This is the point, maintaining successful (and often non-trivial) projects requires a good bit of work.

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Re:WiX Toolset: Introduce the Open Source Maintenance Fee by 9cb14c1ec0 on Friday July 25, 2025 @07:55AM (#44682136)

You can always just merge in the latest changes from the upstream project with a click or too. No need to maintain it on your own.

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