On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:22:14 -0700 (PDT) Christopher Painter <chr...@deploymentengineering.com> wrote:
> If that's your main requirement then a self extracting ZIP would do > the trick for you along with many other available tools. Personally > I think that then causes another problem of not caching the extracted > MSI in a permanent location in case of repair / maint. operations. > A bootstrapper / chainer does so much more then wrap up your MSI into > an EXE. In fact, if you aren't using any of these other capabilities > the question then becomes 'why do you need a setup.exe anyways? > just deploy the msi'. I have been deploying just the MSI but I'm now working on a .NET assembly so will need to bundle the .NET Framework 4.0 too. I don't like self-extracting ZIP files because I think having a proper bootstrapper is a nicer solution since the user sees a single user interface; it also allows you to do minor upgrades by containing the logic to pass the correct flags to msiexec. -- Bruce Cran ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sell apps to millions through the Intel(R) Atom(Tm) Developer Program Be part of this innovative community and reach millions of netbook users worldwide. Take advantage of special opportunities to increase revenue and speed time-to-market. Join now, and jumpstart your future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-atom-d2d _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
