Well everyone out there seems to say minor upgrades are not desired. Our software has weekly updates, as do many other professional applications developed through the world. I think we can all agree that is normal behavior even though it is undesired. Simply saying an app should be designed so well that only releasing monthly patch updates or major upgrades is with out a doubt a statement made from newbie developers that do not produce high volumn professional, complex applications. OK with that said maybe I can start a fire under some of your alls feet. Minor upgrades are a major function of MSI which all of us should be using. First, requesting the user to re-select the installation location is unacceptable. Yes I agree all apps should be installed in their proper locations. But like the developers of Visual Basic know, the customer is always right, you can't just drop the language even through there is no point of it. I have created plenty of apps that install to the default location without user prompt but then I get bombarded with support calls about specifying an alternate location. So for those customers I must allow overinstalls that automatically re-install the previous options as they were previously selected. Next services require specific logon as credentials. If a major upgrade is deployed the service will be uninstalled losing the user's credentials. I can tell you this after talking with 1000s of IT systems admins that most of them have no clue what their domain admin username and password is when used to start windows services. Again asking the user to specify those credentials everytime a new build is released is out of the question. This means a minor upgrade is needed. Well obviously msi is flawed. Msiexe should be able to figure this out and apply the proper actions. But as we all know it does not. So instead we have to run bootstrappers just to fire the proper command. Well I don't see a way to do this with burn. Maybe there is but I don't see a way. Please tell me I am wrong and foolish. I write this email in hopes someone will step up and either admit Wix is not actually a professional product ready for prime time or show me how and prove me an idiot. I am a licensed user of IS 2011 and their bootstrapper handles all of this. I am really bummed I got my MSI mostly done and it works great. Now I need to spend a just a few hours and convert it all to IS. I don't want to use their software. Maybe in a few years burn will get this figured out.
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