Re: [WiX-users] Chaining MSIs together

2011-05-16 Thread Kevin MacDonald
attention? E-Mail Me --- On Sat, 5/14/11, Bob Arnson b...@joyofsetup.com wrote: From: Bob Arnson b...@joyofsetup.com Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Chaining MSIs together To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Saturday, May 14, 2011, 7:23 PM On 13-May-11 13:32, Wilson, Phil wrote: Well

Re: [WiX-users] Chaining MSIs together

2011-05-16 Thread Bob Arnson
On 16-May-11 14:07, Kevin MacDonald wrote: behind the times. All I know is that they have specifically requested a single MSI. That requires the use of an embedded chainer, which requires MSI 4.5 or later. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/

Re: [WiX-users] Chaining MSIs together

2011-05-15 Thread Bob Arnson
On 13-May-11 13:32, Wilson, Phil wrote: Well being picky you don't need MSI 4.5 if all you want to do is install a collection of MSI files wrapped in your custom UI using MsiSetExternalUIRecord - that's always been an option. MSI 4.5 gives you transaction support (so you don't need to

Re: [WiX-users] Chaining MSIs together

2011-05-15 Thread Christopher Painter
that deserves attention? E-Mail Me --- On Sat, 5/14/11, Bob Arnson b...@joyofsetup.com wrote: From: Bob Arnson b...@joyofsetup.com Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Chaining MSIs together To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Saturday, May 14, 2011, 7:23 PM On 13-May-11 13:32, Wilson, Phil wrote: Well

Re: [WiX-users] Chaining MSIs together

2011-05-13 Thread Kevin MacDonald
Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me --- On Thu, 5/12/11, Castro, Edwin G. (Hillsboro) edwin.cas...@fiserv.com wrote: From: Castro, Edwin G. (Hillsboro) edwin.cas...@fiserv.com Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Chaining MSIs together

Re: [WiX-users] Chaining MSIs together

2011-05-13 Thread Christopher Painter
wrote: From: Castro, Edwin G. (Hillsboro) edwin.cas...@fiserv.com Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Chaining MSIs together To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Thursday, May 12, 2011, 7:40 PM A bootstrapper is an executable

Re: [WiX-users] Chaining MSIs together

2011-05-13 Thread Castro, Edwin G. (Hillsboro)
printing this e-mail -Original Message- From: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@deploymentengineering.com] Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 8:16 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Chaining MSIs together The MSI teams discourages

Re: [WiX-users] Chaining MSIs together

2011-05-13 Thread Thom Leigh
:-) -Original Message- From: Kevin MacDonald [mailto:kevinmacdon...@gmail.com] Sent: 13 May 2011 17:32 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Chaining MSIs together Using the latest version of Wix I could not see anything that supports the execution

Re: [WiX-users] Chaining MSIs together

2011-05-13 Thread Wilson, Phil
] Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 10:02 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Chaining MSIs together As has already been said, if you really want to do this you must use Windows Installer 4.5 and its multiple package installation chaining feature: http

Re: [WiX-users] Chaining MSIs together

2011-05-12 Thread John Cooper
Burn is meant to provide this functionality, but it is under developed. There are plenty of chaining/bootstrapping products out there in the meantime. One I like is DotNetInstaller: http://dotnetinstaller.codeplex.com/ . You could use this to install the prerequisite Adobe AIR, if

Re: [WiX-users] Chaining MSIs together

2011-05-12 Thread Kevin MacDonald
So, dotNetInstaller is a package of .NET classes that facilitate chaining together MSIs? But, if it requires .NET then wouldn't any bootstrapper one builds with dotNetInstaller require that it be bootstrapped itself with .NET? My target computers don't necessarily have the .NET runtime installed.

Re: [WiX-users] Chaining MSIs together

2011-05-12 Thread Hambright, Eric
. -Original Message- From: Kevin MacDonald [mailto:kevinmacdon...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 4:57 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Chaining MSIs together So, dotNetInstaller is a package of .NET classes that facilitate chaining

Re: [WiX-users] Chaining MSIs together

2011-05-12 Thread Castro, Edwin G. (Hillsboro)
-617-0291 www.fiserv.com Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail -Original Message- From: Kevin MacDonald [mailto:kevinmacdon...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 4:57 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users