Re: [WiX-users] Msi inside msi ?

2007-07-27 Thread Rob Mensching
PM To: Mike Dimmick; Bob Arnson; Jeroen Davelaar Cc: WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Msi inside msi ? Thanks mike, Yes I would agree fragments offer much more and I will keep that in mind moving forward. For me however I need a migration path from Wise to WIX

Re: [WiX-users] Msi inside msi ?

2007-07-26 Thread Bob Arnson
Collins, James wrote: Yes I would agree fragments offer much more and I will keep that in mind moving forward. For me however I need a migration path from Wise to WIX and that's going to be merge modules for now. Once I have convinced my team WIX is the way to go (and believe me I'm

Re: [WiX-users] Msi inside msi ?

2007-07-25 Thread Emilien Bertin
Thanks for the confirmation Bob. So I have to drop this msi in msi solution because I want to deliver a msi, not an external .exe Do you have an other idea ? At least I would like the big part to be an msi, and the small one could be a zip or something. Bob Arnson a écrit : Emilien Bertin

Re: [WiX-users] Msi inside msi ?

2007-07-25 Thread Bernd
thats not correct! you dont need the external exe. with custom action type 7/23/39 you can nest a msi. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/306439 Emilien Bertin wrote: Thanks for the confirmation Bob. So I have to drop this msi in msi solution because I want to deliver a msi,

Re: [WiX-users] Msi inside msi ?

2007-07-25 Thread Jeroen Davelaar
-users@lists.sourceforge.net Onderwerp: Re: [WiX-users] Msi inside msi ? thats not correct! you dont need the external exe. with custom action type 7/23/39 you can nest a msi. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/306439 Emilien Bertin wrote: Thanks for the confirmation Bob. So I have

Re: [WiX-users] Msi inside msi ?

2007-07-25 Thread Richard.Foster
Of Bernd Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 7:47 AM To: Emilien Bertin; WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Msi inside msi ? thats not correct! you dont need the external exe. with custom action type 7/23/39 you can nest a msi. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/306439

Re: [WiX-users] Msi inside msi ?

2007-07-25 Thread Bob Arnson
Emilien Bertin wrote: Do you have an other idea ? At least I would like the big part to be an msi, and the small one could be a zip or something. I'm not sure I understand the scope of the problem. WiX works just like every other compiler/linker in that it's scriptable so rebuilding an

Re: [WiX-users] Msi inside msi ?

2007-07-25 Thread Bob Arnson
Jeroen Davelaar wrote: How is it possible to nest a msi file with Orca while it is nog possible to do the same thing with WiX? WiX deprecated the functionality when the MSI team deprecated it. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/

Re: [WiX-users] Msi inside msi ?

2007-07-25 Thread Mike Dimmick
Of Collins, James Sent: 25 July 2007 19:35 To: Bob Arnson; Jeroen Davelaar Cc: WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Msi inside msi ? Hey Jeroen, I'm also not sure what your trying to achieve however for me I have very large installers including well over 16k files. For me I

Re: [WiX-users] Msi inside msi ?

2007-07-25 Thread Collins, James
an installer inside an installer. Jimbo -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Arnson Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 8:27 AM To: Jeroen Davelaar Cc: WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Msi inside msi ? Jeroen Davelaar wrote

Re: [WiX-users] Msi inside msi ?

2007-07-25 Thread Collins, James
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Msi inside msi ? WiX was designed to support very large installer projects, with a design goal of distributed setup authoring. To support this idea, WiX supports Fragments. A Fragment is just a section of setup authoring. Loosely, candle compiles source files containing one

[WiX-users] Msi inside msi ?

2007-07-24 Thread Emilien Bertin
Hi everybody, I'm trying to deliver a product with a msi, and I need help. I want to separate this product in two part, the big and commun one with all the main program, and the small and specific one with some configuration files. The idea behind this separation is to make easier futurs

Re: [WiX-users] Msi inside msi ?

2007-07-24 Thread Bob Arnson
Emilien Bertin wrote: So I want the big msi to install the 2 msi. I employ the CustomAction type 50 (with [SystemFolder]msiexec and /quiet /i path_to_small_msi ). But it seems impossible to install two msi in the same time. That's correct. You need to use an external .exe bootstrapper. --