Slight change to our requirement here as I can see why the other method would
be unreliable.
1 - Launch the MSI, this launches our NSIS installer which installs silently
(I've already got this working). This also installs our NSIS uninstall exe.
2 - Running the MSI uninstaller should launch our
How is that a change to your requirement? I could tell you how to do this,
but I don't feel like advocating what I consider to be a horrible design.
This should get you the information you need, but I guarantee you'll be back
on this mailing list in a short period of time trying to resolve
You may want to consider writing a bootstrapper that strings together
your MSI and NSIS packages and installs them sequentially. You can
write the bootstrapper in NSIS as well. Then all you need is a simple
NSIS uninstall script that calls uninstall on your packages. This way
you can avoid
Subject: [WiX-users] wix as a wrapper for NSIS
We have a working NSIS installer for our app that works fine. But one of our
clients has asked us to start producing a MSI version. So my question is
this. Would it be possible to use wix to create a wrapper installation that
runs our NSIS installer
My career used to center around systems management and when Sun FINALLY
released an MSI for the JRE installer, the world rejoiced. ...until we
found out they has just wrapped their junker of an install in an MSI. Then,
we cursed their names. If your client is asking for an MSI, they more than
The said that they need it to be an MSI as they have some kind of software
management system that only handles MSIs. I don't have any more details than
that.
Is it possible to force the MSI to not create the uninstall entry? I guess
that would be sufficient, it probably wouldn't even matter if
If it only accepts MSIs, they are probably deploying software via GPOs and
AD. You really should provide them with a true MSI if you don't want a
support nightmare.
Regards,
//aj
On 6/6/07, carlH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The said that they need it to be an MSI as they have some kind of
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 11:55 -0700, carlH wrote:
The said that they need it to be an MSI as they have some kind of software
management system that only handles MSIs. I don't have any more details than
that.
That's enough though, and basically confirms what I (and others on this
list) suspected.
I'll go back to them and ask for some more details. In the mean time, does
anyone actually know if what I'm trying to achieve is possible?
Carl
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Of course it's possible, but it's not suggested at all and I doubt you will
find anyone on this list that would condone or endorse it.
Regards,
//aj
On 6/6/07, carlH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'll go back to them and ask for some more details. In the mean time,
does
anyone actually know if
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