InstallShield <grin/> Seriously, I'm warming up to WiX but I still only use it for my merge module development ( hundreds of them ). I still consume them with InstallShield Product Configurations to support dozens of products with upwards to 15,000 files each and dozens of third party packages to be bootstrapped before my MSI. One day ( year ) WiX will have Burn and I'll reevaluate that strategy.
Regards, Chris Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me ----- Original Message ---- From: Lukas Haase <lukasha...@gmx.at> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wed, July 21, 2010 5:26:46 PM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Does the msi-filename matter? Dear Blair, Dear Christopher, Thank you for your reply. Am 22.07.2010 00:11, schrieb Blair: > [...] > This is part of the reason huge numbers of software producers distributing > over the internet use self-extract-and-launch-style wrappers (zip-exe style) > for their MSI distribution. Do you have a recommendation for such a tool? > [...] > It is true that changing the MSI file name forces a major upgrade. Isn't this really dumb? I am kind of disappointed of MSI... Everything gets a GUID in order to be REALLY sure that everything just depends on an ID and not on a name etc. And then...that?! > [...] I would suggest something like > [OriginalDatabase]>> \MYSUPPORTEDFILENAME.msi > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370562(VS.85).aspx > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368012(VS.85).aspx Is this what you mean? <Condition Message="You must not rename the msi file!"> OriginalDatabase ~<> "\MYSUPPORTEDFILENAME.msi" </Condition> Regards, Luke > Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog > Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves > attention? E-Mail Me > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Lukas Haase<lukasha...@gmx.at> > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Sent: Wed, July 21, 2010 4:42:20 PM > Subject: [WiX-users] Does the msi-filename matter? > > Hi, > > Does the filename of the msi file matter in any way? > > I really DO NOT hope so! Because I have no influence if the user renames > the file before installing?! > > [1] says: "There are cases when the Windows Installer forces you to use > a major upgrade [...] You have to when you change the name of the .msi > file for any reason. [...]" > > Regards, > Luke > > > > > [1] http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson4.php#4.1 > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint > What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? > Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint > What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? > Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint > What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? > Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
