windows: use WiX to make MSI installers

assigned to @ben.boeckel

Windows users are not accustomed to .msi as much as they are to .exe. I feel like this is a big change that may be required but should be discussed and validated.

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Looking at the failures, it looks like we need to enable the MSI Installer Service on our CI machines for WiX to work properly.

Grabbed from a CI machine's log:

light.exe : error LGHT0217 : Error executing ICE action 'ICE07'. The most common cause of this kind of ICE failure is an incorrectly registered scripting engine. See http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/error217/ for details and how to solve this problem. The following string format was not expected by the external UI message logger: "The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed. This can occur if the Windows Installer is not correctly installed. Contact your support personnel for assistance.".

@brad.king Did you have to do something explicitly for CMake's usage of WiX or is this perhaps an undocumented side-effect of once having WiX globally installed?

added 9 commits

0e574ca2 - paraview.bundle: add the suffix only to the package filename
c51f3176 - superbuild: bump to let packaging know its generator
cede0bb9 - paraview.bundle: avoid the suffix on WiX generators
146ca1cb - paraview.bundle: set the GUIDs for the WiX installers
9cd4f39f - windows: suppress validation on CI packaging
aa81be29 - gitlab-ci: download and make WiX available
9d53cad4 - packages: use WiX on Windows instead of NSIS
da436554 - packages: remove NSIS from packaging
237625cf - gitlab-ci: remove NSIS bits

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mentioned in merge request !1000 (merged)

requested review from @cory.quammen

We'll try this for the next release; we can bring back NSIS if it is requested.

Do: merge

mentioned in commit f42a44c2

merged

mentioned in issue paraview#21556 (closed)

windows: use WiX to make MSI installers

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