David, To automate the deployment you need the every build to be able to update the last. I am guessing that because of your versioning of the MSI with the sprint number being the third number, you can't process the install as an upgrade. I am assuming you have authored upgrades into the MSI. For our environment the build number is the third digit of the version, and we increment this with every build.
You will need to use a silent install to have it as part of a build process (ie to suppress any dialogs). The only observation I would make is that we don't automatically deploy builds to our test environment, but we have automated the process so that the testers can pull the install when they want it. This allows test to decide when to take a version which is a big issue for us. Michael ________________________________________ From: David Keaveny [davidkeav...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 6 May 2009 9:05 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Building MSIs for automated deployment I've been using WiX v3 with CruiseControl.NET for some time now to build MSI packages for deployment, without any real problem. We're working in an agile environment, so fresh MSIs are being created every night, with the version number being incremented at the beginning of each sprint (for instance, this sprint the package version is 1.0.6, next sprint it will be 1.0.7), but the deployment is currently a manual process; someone has to uninstall the old versions and install the new versions. I have NAnt running on my staging servers to which I'm deploying to handle the various steps required. What strategies are people using for automating their deployments? How would you handle the crossover from (in my case) v1.0.6 to v1.0.7? Regards, David ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
