Good old Udemy Elixr/Pheonix courses being irrelevant within 6 months but still trying to con people by saying they’re updated to current year.

  • m-p{3}@lemmy.ca
    5·
    10 hours ago

    I had to build a Windows Installer package using WiX Toolset, and v5 came out maybe 3-4 months at that point and the structure compared to v4 is quite different… that was fun trying to build something with lackluster documentation compared to v4. I gave a shot to ChatGPT, etc to help, but all it could spit out was a mess.

    • brian@programming.dev
      2·
      9 hours ago

      4 to 5 added like 2 tags, but was fully backwards compatibile. the painful upgrade you’re thinking of was 3 to 4 where they basically rewrote, it but don’t have any tutorial content other than one of the main devs making an absurdly long series of walkthrough videos so it’s impossible to find the topic you’re interested in

      • m-p{3}@lemmy.ca
        2·
        8 hours ago

        Right, I think I found a lot of stuff for v3, but not that much for v4 and almost nothing for v5. I still managed to figure it out and I have a decent template now.

        The worst is trying to find which version a post on StackExchange is about…

        Just having an example with the most common tasks (ex: creating registry keys, registering DLLs or Fonts, etc) and having some comments in there with the common pitfalls to avoid would really go a long way.

        I do appreciate v5 in a way, now that you don’t need a preprocessing step for the file, that you can use a wildcards for a directory, and you can just build a package in a single step is a great improvement. Maybe I was spoiled with Nullsoft and Inno Setup in the past 😬