Re: [WiX-users] How To Create Successive Patches That Supersede Previous?

2009-04-25 Thread Heath Stewart
This is not a recommended use for patches. If you're going to update all files, you should consider a major upgrade instead. To avoid the issue where the patch always sequences to the highest ProductVersion (which means you must change the ProductCode or some other identity property, or you lose

Re: [WiX-users] How To Create Successive Patches That Supersede Previous?

2009-04-25 Thread Emanuel Masciarelli
. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How To Create Successive Patches That Supersede Previous? This is not a recommended use for patches. If you're going to update all files, you should consider a major upgrade instead. To avoid the issue where the patch always sequences to the highest ProductVersion (which

Re: [WiX-users] How To Create Successive Patches That Supersede Previous?

2009-04-24 Thread Emanuel Masciarelli
And apparently no attachments. I'll paste the contents :) Content of original post with attachments: Sure thing. It was a long day so sorry for the lack of detail. Attached you'll find the wxs for the installs and the patches, and the batch files I use. I pass the version numbers into the

[WiX-users] How To Create Successive Patches That Supersede Previous?

2009-04-23 Thread Emanuel Masciarelli
I tried looking through the digests on sourceforge but couldn't find a way to search, and didn't see this question answered so I apologize if it's a duplicate. I am trying to create patches for a product that will each be all encompassing of the previous ones, and want anybody at any version