[Bug 20723] Photoshop CS4 installer fails

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20723





--- Comment #6 from Benjamin Schulz <Benjamin_Schulz at gmx.de>  2009-11-18 03:34:42 ---
Perhaps it is a regression.



However, I wonder why those installer packages often fail in wine.

Installshield allows to download trial versions of their setup-creator
development environments:
http://www.flexerasoftware.com/resources/trials.htm#installshield


Microsoft released their installer development system for free:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Installer_XML

It seems that it is not hard to obtain the development environment applications
which are used to create those windows installers. 

Hence, there should be the possibility for an open source project, to create
own installers, run them in wine, and closely examine, where something goes
wrong.

I think something like this should be done. Since many applications use those
windows installer now. 

I have used this installshield and windows installer development environments
around 5 years ago. From what I remember, these systems were similar to a
simple scripting language (that is: not a complete programming language), with
only some settings left that the developer could control.

Perhaps by looking at the development environments of those installer programs,
one can create some test cases for wine.

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