Thank you for your reply. I saw that web pages earlier and perhaps I did not look at it closely enough but there are two things that led me to think that I should use minor upgrades.
One, I check user credential during installation so I don't think the user wants to enter their credential again during upgrade. Two, I have certain files that I don't want to lose during upgrades because I keep user configuration data there. Of course, I am not really willing to create another bootstrapper just because I need to check previous versions and I need to pass certain command line arguments. Please kindly let me know if I can avoid the above two points. If so, I will look for options to implement major upgrades instead. Thank you very much. YEH <>< On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Blair <os...@live.com> wrote: > Search Bob Arnson's blog "Joy of Setup" http://www.joyofsetup.com/ for > "major upgrade". > > Despite the name of the term, it is usually for most project the right kind > of upgrade, especially if they don't plan on using MSP files. > > -----Original Message----- > From: CP YEH [mailto:ntde...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 11:55 AM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] minor upgrade - how to check installed program > version? > > Thank you very much for your reply. > My msi is pretty small in that it contains only few executable > files(exe/dll). Every now and then there are changes to these files so > I need to provide updates so that the user can download the upgrade > packages to upgrade their application. It's also possible that I might > have to add more files in the future. > I don't know which upgrades is the best option but I felt that minor > upgrade sounds most reasonable to me but if you have any other > suggestions. > Thank you. > > YEH <>< > > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Blair <os...@live.com> wrote: >> Normally those are checked by your bootstrapper that sets the REINSTALL > and >> REINSTALLMODE values on the commandline. If your bootstrapper doesn't > check >> versions you will need to write that yourself. >> >> Question: What use case do you have for using minor upgrades? Is it for >> supporting patching? >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: CP YEH [mailto:ntde...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 11:08 AM >> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> Subject: [WiX-users] minor upgrade - how to check installed program > version? >> >> Hi, >> >> I have created setup msi and it works fine. Then, I created minor >> upgrade msi and I would like to check what version of my program is >> installed on the machine to see if I should proceed to install. >> >> I added some code as follows. >> >> <Upgrade Id="fea8ad46-55f2-481a-8735-cbd721ccb3ec"> >> <UpgradeVersion OnlyDetect="yes" Property="SELFFOUND" >> Minimum="1.0.1" IncludeMinimum="yes" >> Maximum="1.0.1" IncludeMaximum="yes" /> >> <UpgradeVersion OnlyDetect='yes' Property='NEWERFOUND' >> Minimum='1.0.2' IncludeMinimum='no' /> >> </Upgrade> >> >> <CustomAction Id='AlreadyUpdated' Error='[ProductName] is already >> installed.' /> >> <CustomAction Id='NoDowngrade' Error='A later version of >> [ProductName] is already installed.' /> >> >> <InstallExecuteSequence> >> <Custom Action="NoDowngrade" >> After="FindRelatedProducts">NEWERFOUND</Custom> >> <Custom Action="AlreadyUpdated" >> After="FindRelatedProducts">SELFFOUND</Custom> >> </InstallExecuteSequence> >> >> But looking at the logs I found that actions are skipped because I am >> running this msi in maintenance mode and thus, FindRelatedProducts >> action is skipped. >> So I am wondering how I can cause msi to run my custom actions to >> check versions. >> Please let me know if anyone dealt with this issue before. 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