Hi,
- get rid of dependence on instmsiw.exe and instmsia.exe
also this will iirc have some dependencies wrt system requirements, what
do you consider as minimum Windows baseline ? I would be fine with a XP
System SP2,
I would alse be fine with Windows XP SP2 as the minimum Windows
operating system as it is already stated in the building guide for
Windows -
http://ooo-wiki.apache.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide/Building_on_Windows
-- I did not find any reference to these files in the sources.
They come from the installer SDK,
As I can see on my system (Windows 7) the files instmsiw.exe and
instmsia.exe are no longer included in "Microsoft Visual C++ 2008
Express" or "Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008"
I also did not see that these files are included in an OOo
installation set, if they are copied into ../external/msi/.
Searching for information about the Microsoft Windows Installer -
namely these executables - results that
- the Microsoft Windows Installer is part of the Windows operating
system since versions Windows 2000 and Windows ME.
- for previous Windows versions (95, 98, 98 2nd Edition) the Microsoft
Windows Installer has be manually installed. As far as I know these
Windows version are no longer supported by OOo. Is this correct?
Thus, I concluded that these files are no longer needed.
Does anyone has further information?
I would think this depends on what version of the installer we depend,
on my windows xp system I have Windows Installer 3.01 available, on my
Windows 7 there is version 5 available. As always, some testing on the
baselines is required.
To my knowledge, just the creation of .msp (patches and service packs)
requires a recent version of the installer, so if avoiding this the
removal of the instmsi?.exe may be ok,
Thanks and best regards,
Oliver
Martin
greetings,
Martin
