Blair, thank you for this detailed information. It is a big help for me. Since I don't know anything about any of the mentioned features, I doubt that I ever will need a later version than 1.00 (100), as my software is not 64 Bit. :-)
I just have filed a request to add your list to the WiX documentation, so people know what version put request. Regards Markus > -----Original Message----- > From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com] > Sent: Montag, 2. November 2009 22:46 > To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to know which InstallerVersion to use? > > If you don't specify, WiX currently defaults to 1.0 ("100"). > > Very brief matrix: > > MSI 1.x - basic MSI support, 32-bit only. > MSI 2.x - added 64-bit support. > MSI 3.0 - improved patching. > MSI 3.1 - improved external ui. > MSI 4.0 - Vista/2008 only. Incorporates > UAC-integration/restart-manager-integration/transaction-integration as > well > as embedded-UI/msi-chaining and some improvements to patch support > (superseded components/patch removal custom actions. > MSI 4.5 - some bug fixes, and a redistributable containing the embedded > ui, > msi chaining, and improved patch support (superseded components and > patch > removal actions) for supported pre-Vista platforms. The restart > manager, > UAC, and transaction integrations require platform support so they are > not > in the downlevel redistributable (although they are retained in the > vista/2008 redistributable), but all the other improvements in 4.0 are > in > 4.5. > MSI 5.0 - Windows 7/2008 R2 only (AFAIK). Big things are SDDL for > configuring permissions, more control over services, finally some > improvement to the internal UI (a hyperlink control, a print and a > launch-app control events), along with a way to finally author packages > that > can be switched between per-user and per-machine during the > installation. > > See the links off this page for more details: > http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/aa372796.aspx for details after 2.0. > > This page details each released build from 2.0 on: > http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/aa371185.aspx. > > MSDN no longer documents the changes that 2.0 added from 1.x apart from > the > 64-bit support, but no version of 1.x is supported anymore either (that > was > much more than a decade ago). Most of the info on 1.x I found was on > Wikipedia. > > If you look to see in the lists of what "wasn't supported" to determine > which version started supporting the things you use, you will then be > able > to determine which is your minimum version. Or, if you have a minimum > platform (XP SP2, Vista, whatever) you can look to see what shipped > with > that platform and avoid anything that isn't supported in that release > of > Windows Installer. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Markus Karg [mailto:markus.k...@gmx.net] > Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 11:16 AM > To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' > Subject: [WiX-users] How to know which InstallerVersion to use? > > I am a beginner to MSI and WiX and have a question on the > InstallerVersion > attribute: > > > > How to know what version of WindowsInstaller my .msi will need to run > correctly? > > > > Is there some kind of table that I did not discover so far, containing > all > WiX / MSI features plus the needed version number? > > > > And, if I do not use the attribute at all, what will happen then? > > > > Maybe this is a silly question, but I did not find any answer besides " > For > 64-bit Windows Installer packages, this property must be set to 200 or > greater.". > > > > Thanks! > > Markus > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- > -- > Come build with us! 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