Or just download and extract their self-extracting installer, extract it, and place it on a web server you control (no need to bundle it). Then in your bundle you just reference that payload. You're still going to have to update your bundle when you decide to release/approve an updated version of their install with your application.
-----Original Message----- From: Leor Greenberger [mailto:maverick0...@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2015 1:15 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Using burn to download, unzip, install package Maybe then what I can do is download their package, extract it, and create a separate Burn project to package, build and upload it to a server I control. The only downside is I would have to manually redo this whenever the 3rd party releases an updated package. ----- Original Message ----- From: Rob Mensching <r...@firegiant.com> To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Cc: Sent: Thursday, April 2, 2015 1:48 PM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Using burn to download, unzip, install package I would let Burn do all the downloading but if you can't just create process the package, then you'll have to write something that can be create processed then do the multiple steps. For example, how would Burn know what to do here? It's all custom... which basically comes down to "Don't do that" but you have to convince the 3rd party to improve their installation story. _____________________________________________________________ Short replies here. Complete answers over there: http://www.firegiant.com/ -----Original Message----- From: maverick02 maverick02 [mailto:maverick0...@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, April 2, 2015 10:14 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Using burn to download, unzip, install package Thank you Rob for the quick reply. Just to be clear, this package that I am bundling is not mine, but is provided by a 3rd party. It is also quite large (at about 70 MB) and so it would be nice if it would download only on demand when its not yet already installed. Are my options essentially: 1) Ship with the extracted setup.exe in the bundle. or 2) Write a .NET library to perform the downloading, extraction, and installation? Thanks. ----- Original Message ----- From: Rob Mensching <r...@firegiant.com> To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Cc: Sent: Thursday, April 2, 2015 12:51 PM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Using burn to download, unzip, install package I'd consider shipping the setup.exe (and any support files) in the bundle without the archive wrapper. _____________________________________________________________ Short replies here. Complete answers over there: http://www.firegiant.com/ -----Original Message----- From: maverick02 maverick02 [mailto:maverick0...@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, April 2, 2015 9:28 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Using burn to download, unzip, install package Hi Everyone, I am looking for some guidance on doing the following. I want to bundle a prerequisite package that can be downloaded from a url at install time. The problem is that this package comes as a self-extracting Winzip archive and if the installation is to be silent, I need to do it in two stages: 1. Extract the archive silently to a folder. 2. Run the extracted Setup.exe with some command line switches. It's not clear to me how one would do this with Burn without having a .NET dependency. Any ideas? Thanks. Leor Greenberger ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. 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