Sorry, you said "My main requirement is a single file that users can download
to
do the installation". I had no way of knowing you were wanting to do .NET
redist and minor upgrades.
The bootstrapper support in InstallShield is one of the things that anchors me
to that toolset. I use WiX for all of my component authoring and then glue it
together with IS. Hopefully one day (year) burn will be ready.
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----- Original Message ----
From: Bruce Cran <br...@cran.org.uk>
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
<wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: chr...@deploymentengineering.com
Sent: Mon, August 30, 2010 8:02:45 AM
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrapping and Burn
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.
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Bruce Cran
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