Installaware

The 'human readable' scripting may help those who are not programmers, but the control that is expected of a 'real' scripting language is lacking.  I also have had it fail to install frameworks that were marked as required.  (or it could be failing to identify that they are not fully installed).

Windows Installers

It seems that installer builders for Windows have still not matured.  This is a very interesting state of affairs.  Perhaps this is caused by persons other than engineers being responsible for creating the install packages.  I will be evaluating many options over the next while and hope to have a complete report of which tools perform best for which target audience.

SDK Redesign

I have made the decision to redesign from the ground up a SDK for one of my clients.  To allow interim use of old methods and use cases I will add a layer on top to mimic the old SDK.  This pushes the users to move to new functionality by putting the performance hit on the deprecated functions rather than punishing early adopters of the new SDK.