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> Installer XML toolset.
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to selectively NOT install file if file already
> exists on system
>
> I've never had an issue where the custo
ile
won't be replaced. Something like that sounds like it should work for you.
Phil
From: Rob Mensching [...@wixtoolset.org]
Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2009 10:47 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users]
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Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to selectively NOT install file if file already
exists on system
I've never had an issue where the customer wasn't right, if they wanted to do
something and I couldn't do it "properly" then our installation was broken.
There are plenty of tim
lity is we don't have the
>> power to say the customer isn't right.
>>
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> --- On Fri, 6/12/09, Rob Mensching wrote:
>
>> From: Rob Mensching
>> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to selectively NOT install file if file already
>> exists
ion of the component, unless I go in manually and run
> a script to set the condition on the particular file.
> >
> > -Original Message-----
> > From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@wixtoolset.org]
> > Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 8:28 PM
> > To: General discussion
> and run a script to set the condition on the particular file.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@wixtoolset.org]
> Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 8:28 PM
> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How t
wrote:
> From: David Bartmess
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to selectively NOT install file if file already
> exists on system
> To: "'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'"
>
> Date: Friday, June 12, 2009, 10:21 AM
> 1. I agree. But
tively NOT install file if file already
exists on system
1. That is a very poor app design for installation. A few cases that are going
to just be painful to get right declaratively. For example, what do you do on
repair? Ick.
Installation Tenet: don't let people modify the files that you i
1. That is a very poor app design for installation. A few cases that are
going to just be painful to get right declaratively. For example, what
do you do on repair? Ick.
Installation Tenet: don't let people modify the files that you install.
2. Why not do a FileSearch and Condition out the Comp
I'm trying to create an install that can check if the file being installed
already exists, and not install over the top of the existing file. The reason
is the customers are customizing their website that we install with a custom
header GIF file, and every time we install we have to manually cop
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