1.  I believe this is correct.

2.  Yes, setupbld.exe is supposed to handle this correctly.  It currently 
decides things are a minor upgrade if the major version (the first number) is 
the same as the installed bits and any of the other parts of the version are 
higher than the installed bits.  This just the way it determines when to do 
minor upgrades.

3.  I am not sure I ever tried to run the tool on Win2k.  I believe the 
original design parameters were XP and above...

Note: setupbld is a very primitive bootstrapper.

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lincoln Lavoie
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 19:03
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] questions about minor updates

Hello All,

I've got a couple of quick questions about using WiX through the update process.

1.  When you launch a minor update with the msiexec options to enable the 
update, this would typically be done by the setup.exe wrapper.  Now, I believe 
I read somewhere that you shouldn't use those options for the first install.  
Is this correct?

2.  If the above answer is "yes," does the setupbld.exe wrapper in WiX 3.0 
handle this problem?  If not, are there any recommendations for handling this?  
It would seem very "nasty" to need 2 versions of our installer (one for "clean" 
machines and one for updates).

3.  Has anyone seen issues with setupbld.exe, where it does not seem to accept 
any command line arguments?  Even when I run it with "-?" is returns "Error 
0x80070057: Bad commandline argument: -?", mind you this is on a Windows2000pro 
system, I haven't tried it on an XP build environment yet.

Thanks for your help.

Cheers,
Lincoln
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