I don't know that I'd really agree with that priority. A bootstrapper is 
really not that hard to write to start with.

Arun Perregatturv wrote:
> Brian,
> 
> I would vote for Burn to kick start sooner than other things. The most 
> important thing for any or all installer is the BootStrapper without that 
> installing will be very difficult.
> As I said before, the Setup.exe I have to write in Win32 since .NET Framework 
> won't installed to begin with, I already have code in Win32 that checks for 
> .NET/SQL Server/Special characters in computer names and manually check 
> product version and so on from the Registry.
> 
> If I can suggest Bob Arnson/Rob Mensching to add some additional features for 
> Burn such as CD Browser which can read from an XML file that would great.
> Burn can create a setup.exe using XML and add Buttons and Actions to read XML 
> file which will have something like this
> <CD>
>         <Button Text="Install Server" Action="DoInstall"/>
>         <Button Text="Install .NET Framework" Action="DoFrameworkInstall"/>
>         <Button Text="Install SQL Server" Action="DoSQLInstall"/>
> </CD>
> 
> Then use <CustomAction> to Either Install from <CD>\NET35\Setup.exe something 
> like this would be great.
> All the work we do in Wix is to install software but I am sure everyone will 
> have some sort of Pre-requisite before installing they want users to either 
> click on it or do it silently.
> 
> Thanks,
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