I spent a lot of time previously researching all this MSI stuff. No, you can't do that. Merge modules might have been an answer, but merge modules are not designed for dependencies. They are designed to repackage files for a private installation.
The official MS party line on this is to build full .MSI files for each of the dependencies: gtk, gtk# *2 and Mono, and then to build a bootstrapper which uses the MSI API to install all 3. Building a bootstrapper takes work. On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 18:26 -0400, Miguel de Icaza wrote: > > Yes, I think this is possible, however it would force you guys to ship > > Mono in a separate installer. > > I think we can do that; If we can do installers with dependencies (if > we move to MSI) then we can just have one that has everything, right? > > > While we're chatting, if anyone is interested in getting their hands on > > the source for our installers, they're available on our SourceForge.net > > page[1]. > > > > Cheers, > > > > -Brad > > > > -- > > [1] > > http://openvista.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/openvista/gtksharp-win32-installer/ > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mono-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list _______________________________________________ Mono-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list
