I think half the subscribers to this mailing list are waiting for that.
:)
Joel Peterson
Quality Engineer
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Quality Assurance Engineer
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Christopher Painter
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 8:09 AM
To: Bob Arnson; John Vottero
Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] msi to exe
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:
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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