If you're writing code to deal with this, can't you compare the installed version (ProductCode, ProductVersion) with the download version and skip the download? I'm assuming you may know some of this in advance, and that they don't change the version at the download location too often or you'll need to download it every time anyway. --------------- Phil Wilson
On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 10:48 AM, Rob Mensching <r...@firegiant.com> wrote: > 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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