Hi Brian, thanks I do appreciate as many cents as I can get. You mentioned a boot stapper, do you know if WiX supports this or is this something I would have to custom develop?
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Brian Rogers <rogers.br...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey Reese, > > I hope you don't mind my 2ยข. If you are able to componentize to the level > you mention below I think it might be easier for you to use individual MSIs > for the installations. Having said that I realize this will then push you > to > a bootstrapper if you want to deploy a suite of your product. However, this > would allow for individual maintenance plans for each product > independently. > If your product line is being developed to handle deprecation for calls to > the backend and any shared components this would allow for, possibly, less > updates. However, you would need to look into breaking out any "common" > assemblies/files into a unique package as well. > > As Arun has mentioned, it is easier to include all in one and just maintain > the one. However, if you are supporting multiple product lines this might > become more difficult. > > Thanks, > > Brian Rogers > "Intelligence removes complexity." - Me > http://icumove.spaces.live.com > > > On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Reese <quattro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi Rob, sure, we have a small team of about 4 developers and I'm the only > > one who has MSI / build / installation knowledge. I want to get to a > point > > where (obviously with some of my help) the others projects, solutions, > etc. > > can be merged or built into a master installer or installers. One thing > we > > are debating is whether to have an installation for each application or > one > > master suite for all the applications. Most likely the installations will > > possibly look like this --> one for our database, one for our > > application/web server and n for our client applications. The development > > will likely include multiple solutions. Should there be a WiX merge > module > > project for each .NET project which we compose into an installation? Any > > recommendation or guidance would be much appreciated, thanks. > > > > On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Rob Mensching > > <rob.mensch...@microsoft.com>wrote: > > > > > Can you provide a few more specifics about your situation? > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Reese [mailto:quattro...@gmail.com] > > > Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 16:01 > > > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > > Subject: [WiX-users] Multi-project development > > > > > > Hi, what is the current recommendation regarding multiple project/ > > > developer > > > installation authoring via WiX. At one point I heard it might be to go > > with > > > the merge module project but is there a better way? > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > _______________________________________________ > > > WiX-users mailing list > > > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > _______________________________________________ > > > WiX-users mailing list > > > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > > It is the best place to buy or sell services for > > just about anything Open Source. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB > > _______________________________________________ > > WiX-users mailing list > > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It is the best place to buy or sell services for > just about anything Open Source. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It is the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
