Dix, John wrote:
Being new to MSI and WiX I have several architecture questions however
I will restrict it to one for now. My company pushes webchanges to our
website which customer's see however we would like to speed the
testing process up by implementing MSI packages for deployment. Due to
our systems, we release everything in incremental changes, which lends
itself well to MSP files. My question is whether it would make more
sense to use MSI's everytime, or can we use MSP files without a
previous MSI base?
You can do major upgrades with each .msi package; that's straightforward
especially for small packages. Patches carry some overhead in the build
process, though the new WiX patching tools are reducing that. They're
best if you're updating few files in a large product or to reduce the
amount of testing that's necessary. (Patching touches only specific
files, so you can test only the affected systems.)
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