I didn't want to beat this thread to death, but that's exactly right. From my
perspective I'm trying to investigate how WiX can make my life easier then
InstallShield and I have to admit, while I know how to program a bootstrapper
from scratch, I'm completly spoiled in that I'm used to simple clicking a few
release settings and have InstallShield take care of it for me. The thought of
rolling my own bootstrapper and then hiding it inside IExpress just makes me
shiver.
Now if a program like WiXAware was to have a similar story that authored wxs
files that told candle/light/whatever to do a similar thing, I'd be one step
closer to saying goodbye to InstallShield.
Bob Arnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
John Vottero wrote: v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:*
{behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape
{behavior:url(#default#VML);} We use iexpress to bundle
everything into a self extracting executable. We then add a manifest to that
executable and sign it. When the self extracting executable unpacks, it runs
our bootstrapper which does all the detecting etc. and then invokes msiexec
with the correct parameters.
That's an important distinction: IExpress is a self-extractor, not a
bootstrapper. Mostly because IExpress is dumb and doesn't give you any control
like a bootstrapper.
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