Re: [WiX-users] Burn Install / Uninstall Scenario

2013-03-02 Thread Neil Sleightholm
to be fixed. -Original Message- From: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@iswix.com] Sent: 28 February 2013 21:35 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Burn Install / Uninstall Scenario I've got a weird scenario involving AdobeFlash. They have

Re: [WiX-users] Burn Install / Uninstall Scenario

2013-03-02 Thread Rob Mensching
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Burn Install / Uninstall Scenario I've got a weird scenario involving AdobeFlash. They have an MSI, TRANSFORM and MSP that I need to use to install. However, their uninstall is broken (incomplete) and they provide

Re: [WiX-users] Burn Install / Uninstall Scenario

2013-03-02 Thread Christopher Painter
...@robmensching.com Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2013 9:12 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Burn Install / Uninstall Scenario Since two people have already noted this is really hackish, I think the way to get a) is: 1. Mark

Re: [WiX-users] Burn Install / Uninstall Scenario

2013-03-02 Thread Rob Mensching
Mensching r...@robmensching.com Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2013 9:12 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Burn Install / Uninstall Scenario Since two people have already noted this is really hackish, I think

[WiX-users] Burn Install / Uninstall Scenario

2013-03-01 Thread Christopher Painter
I've got a weird scenario involving AdobeFlash. They have an MSI, TRANSFORM and MSP that I need to use to install. However, their uninstall is broken (incomplete) and they provide an EXE to run to do a complete uninstall. We created a bundle to lay this all down but we are getting stuck

Re: [WiX-users] Burn Install / Uninstall Scenario

2013-03-01 Thread Hoover, Jacob
Providing an exe to fix a bad uninstall seems lazy/wrong to me. One should ask for a fixed installer, short of that I can only think of two options. The first is as you suggested with a stub exe to run the uninstall and then the cleanup utility. The second option would be to modify the bad msi