Re: [WiX-users] Chaining MSIs together

2011-05-16 Thread Kevin MacDonald
Many of our customers are school districts whom I suspect are somewhat behind the times. All I know is that they have specifically requested a single MSI. In my situation I need to invoke two third party executables which I assume are bootstrappers. They definitely launch MSIs internally, which is

Re: [WiX-users] Chaining MSIs together

2011-05-13 Thread Kevin MacDonald
or their systems that > allow > > rapid deployment to multiple machine. > > > > Thanks for responding! > > > > Kevin > > > > > > On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 2:40 PM, John Cooper > > wrote: > > > > > Burn is meant to provide this f

Re: [WiX-users] Chaining MSIs together

2011-05-12 Thread Kevin MacDonald
eplex.com/ . You could use this to install the > prerequisite Adobe AIR, if necessary, and then your product. > -- > John M. Cooper > > -Original Message- > From: Kevin MacDonald [mailto:kevinmacdon...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 4:25 PM > To: wix-users

[WiX-users] Problem with quotes in CustomAction

2011-05-12 Thread Kevin MacDonald
I seem to have hit a bug with quotes in CustomAction. Note the variations below. Either of these should work. However, when the command line parameters are expanded out the [MYDIR2] path winds up with no quote in front of it, which presumably causes the call to the executable to fail. I

[WiX-users] Chaining MSIs together

2011-05-12 Thread Kevin MacDonald
Hello, I have an existing installer that I wrote in NSIS that does several things. It installs the Adobe AIR runtime by invoking an executable provided by Adobe. It then installs our AIR application, again using installation utilities provided by Adobe. And finally, it installs media which our AIR