MindVision Installer VISE for Mac

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• I love the company

  thebaddogJune 29, 2003

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I remember back in the day, Mindvision has always helped out mac software developers, I firestorm looks amazing, and I plan to buy it (and stop using drop stuff for all my apps =P as soon as I get some cash) but VISE is still top dog for any large or complex installations, and ANY installing in classic. The company is amazing, with great people.

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• Truly a shame ...

  Damien SorressoMay 15, 2003

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />It's really a shame that such a powerful installer has to have such a horrendous, awful, poor, nauseating user interface. Installer VISE was designed back in the days of the classic Mac OS, and it shows. Trying to get through the interface is akin to wrestling a greased pig. I simply cannot say enough bad things about its interface. The fact that I have to use predefined install locations is tremendously stupid, as well, especially when working in OS X. The bottom line is that this product should be scrapped as soon as possible. It is not at all suitable for an OS X solution. It's interface is a mortal sin against graphical user interfaces, and the installers it produces are perfect examples of how evil Carbon can be. We need MindVision to come up with a good, enterprise OS X installer solution or Apple to provide better tools for creating packages. MindVision are on the right track with FileStorm Pro, which I really do like, but it's just not as flexible as VISE is yet, unfortunately. Hopefully coming versions will offer the flexibility I need so I can ditch VISE forever.

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• K@lleNovember 30, 2002

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Accept no substitutes!

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• tech-manSeptember 3, 2002

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Mindvision needs to team up with Netopia so they can co-develop a version of InstallerVISE that'll work seamlessly with NetOctopus. The remaining gap would be

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• alarmistJune 1, 2002

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />No new features. Still a very archaic installer environment in some ways (i.e., to run shell scripts from installer they must be embedded in the

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• MoofMay 7, 2002

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Prelude: I have been producing large scale commercial installers for several years with VISE. Hands down flat out Mindvision writes the best software for the

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• May 6, 2002

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />InstallerVISE is by far the best technology wise. It's quick, its reliable, it has tons of features to work with, and it is the only

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• ÖlbaumMay 6, 2002

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />From the end user's point of view, VISE is the worst installer around, ex-aequo with Stuffit's. I don't want it to install things on disks

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• J@ffaMay 6, 2002

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Yipee! Carbonized at last! And it rocks, too. :)

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• NorthSoftProductionsMarch 29, 2002

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Sure, it sucks that it is still a Classic app, but it makes Carbon installers. I wouldn't use anything. I haven't come accross any bugs,

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