The command-line is a requirement of the Windows Installer. It hasn't changed, even in MSI 5.0 currently in beta on Windows 7. Many people feel that makes minor upgrades completely useless without a chainer. I'm inclined to agree with them.
We do major upgrades for WiX toolset releases since we don't do apply the necessary diligence required to ensure the other upgrade options work. There is good discussion here about this in the last month. -----Original Message----- From: Colin Fox [mailto:greenene...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 10:28 To: wix-users Subject: [WiX-users] A problem with minor upgrades...? I just noticed this at the bottom of section 4.1 in the tutorial: For some strange reason, small updates and minor upgrades cannot be run > simply by clicking on the .msi file-they give the error: "Another version > of this product is already installed." We know, stupid... Anyway, you have > to start it with the command: > > msiexec /i SampleUpgrade2.msi REINSTALL=ALL REINSTALLMODE=vomus > > Don't ask me how this would fare with the average user... You'd better > start it from an Autorun.inf file or devise an outer Setup.exe shell to > launch it. > Is this still the case? I was under the impression that we could use minor upgrades, since for a while we're going to be releasing beta versions of our software, and the minor upgrade sounds like just the thing. But there's no way we're going to force users to use a command line to install. In the tutorial it mentions that major upgrades are useful for when you want to keep two versions of your software installed, but I don't want that. Is there somewhere that shows a concise, working example of how to do both a minor upgrade and a major upgrade, showing replacing existing versions? The tutorial has some examples but they're not in a working state, and a little bit vague. -- Regards, cf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
