Good question. I have no answer but it is pretty clear that we need one in the WiX toolset and that's my personal secondary priority when working on WiX (first priority is keeping the project running as smoothly as possible).
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jerome Haltom Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 10:10 AM To: Peterson, Joel Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] upgradable merge modules > 1. I really wish > http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/10/Bootstrapper/ was more of > a how-to. It isn't really intuitive on how to use all of this tooling in > Visual Studio 2005, or where to find it. > > 2. WiX really needs a better bootstrapper as a part of what it offers. > If it were to have a framework to make a bootstrapper ranging from what > you see with the Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005, Exchange Server > 2007, and Office 2007 installers, it'd be golden. > > 3. I can't believe a company hasn't come up with a Visual Studio 2005 > SDK for building highly customizable and interactive bootstrappers. My story is that I'm coming to WiX in an effort to create some nice installers for some ports of some free Unix software to Windows. It boggles my mind how the official packaging system requires such things in the first place. I'm actually very surprised that people are in fact writing boot-strappers. Why doesn't Windows installer support bundling dependencies? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users