I agree. But, without a "built in" way of doing this, and with management expecting what previously worked with Wise to work with Wix, it iwa the best I could come up with.
________________________________ From: Rob Mensching <r...@robmensching.com> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Saturday, April 6, 2013 10:11 AM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Bundle Version and patching That's a pretty scary hack to me. I could see us doing things in the future that totally get confused doing that. It seems like this would be a better feature request for the engine to handle. The behavior you are seeing right now is completely expected but I can totally see why it'd be nice if patch bundles could up the related bundle version. On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Brian_Covington <briancoving...@yahoo.com>wrote: > I had the same problem. What I did to solve it is in the product msi, I > created a custom action that runs on both install and uninstall to find the > bundle entry in Uninstall and update the DisplayVersion. When installing, > I > create an OldDisplayVersion which has the version number for what is about > to be overwritten and then on uninstall, I revert back to this version > number. Works like a charm. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Bundle-Version-and-patching-tp7579655p7584934.html > Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Minimize network downtime and maximize team effectiveness. > Reduce network management and security costs.Learn how to hire > the most talented Cisco Certified professionals. Visit the > Employer Resources Portal > http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/employer_resources/index.html > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Minimize network downtime and maximize team effectiveness. Reduce network management and security costs.Learn how to hire the most talented Cisco Certified professionals. Visit the Employer Resources Portal http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/employer_resources/index.html _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Minimize network downtime and maximize team effectiveness. Reduce network management and security costs.Learn how to hire the most talented Cisco Certified professionals. Visit the Employer Resources Portal http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/employer_resources/index.html _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
