The WiX MSIs are all doing Major Upgrades. We're not being careful with the MSI name nor the Componentization during day to day development to try to do more optimal minor upgrade or patching. Major upgrades are just easier (although less optimal).
-----Original Message----- From: Robert O'Brien [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 08:34 To: 'WiX-users' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Announcement: WiX v3.0 beta exit release available Great news and congratulations on reaching this milestone. A while back I posted some questions to the forum about how to structure an msi to automatically set REINSTALL and REINSTALLMODE property settings to necessary values for patch and minor upgrade processing. There were working solutions for the patch msp case but in the case of minor upgrade processing the remark was made that you need to build a msi wrapper that launches it with REINSTALL=ALL and REINSTALLMODE=vomus versus being able to automatically detect minor upgrade scenarios and set those properties automatically within the msi. Well it appears from my installation of the 3.0.4805.0 wix3_x64.msi that there is some solution in place allowing you to just run the msi directly and for it to determine a minor upgrade is necessary and set the required REINSTALL=ALL and REINSTALLMODE= vomus property values so that the minor upgrade processing can succeed. Any tips on how that was accomplished so it can be reused in other wix authored msi work? -----Original Message----- From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 6:28 AM To: WiX-users Subject: [WiX-users] Announcement: WiX v3.0 beta exit release available The WiX Working Group is pleased to announced that the WiX v3.0 "beta exit" build (v3.0.4805.0) is now available. We encourage all users to upgrade to this build for the latest fixes and to verify how ready WiX v3.0 is for release. For more information, see Rob's announcement <http://robmensching.com/blog/archive/2008/11/29/WiX-v3-toolset-end-of-the-Beta-imminent.aspx>, my follow-up <http://www.joyofsetup.com/2008/11/29/wix-v30-beta-coming-soon/>, and Highlights of WiX v3.0.4805.0 <http://www.joyofsetup.com/2008/12/05/highlights-of-wix-v3048050/>. You can download it from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.4805.0/ or from the WiX SourceForge.net releases page <https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=105970&package_id=168888&release_id=645083>. * * -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
