I agree that this is a reasonably good method to deal with the per-user configuration that inevitably ends up falling on the setup developers to supply. The one thing to keep in mind is how to trigger that "last part of install" for the non-installing users (assuming your installation is per-machine).
-----Original Message----- From: Wilson, Phil [mailto:phil.wil...@wonderware.com] Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 1:51 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How Do I Verify Group Membership? We do the same thing. +1 to Sascha's comments. Phil Wilson -----Original Message----- From: Sascha Beaumont [mailto:sascha.beaum...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 7:16 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How Do I Verify Group Membership? One thing to consider with this type of requirement, is how to define the scope of "installation" Many setup developers consider "install" as a much narrower scope than those who are defining the requirements. Leveraging a configuration utility on MSI setup completion (via a bootstrapper or the "finish" button) is still part of the "install" process from a users point of view. For example, our installation comes in two flavours... For retail customers, we provide an interactive installation that doesn't try to gather any config date, they step through the UI, install the software and on pressing the "Finish" button we launch a separate configuration utility. For corporate customers, we provide a tool to set installation parameters, then using the Windows Installer API we create an MST file. The MSI provided to corporate customers doesn't provide any UI, so the application checks on first run to ensure it's configured properly and only requires post-install steps as a fallback option for when information wasn't provided pre-install. HTH. Sascha On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Castro, Edwin G. (Hillsboro) <edwin.cas...@fiserv.com> wrote: > Enter Requirement X: There should be no post-install configuration. > > I tell you, these requirement peoples just love to get in the way! ;-) > > BTW: I completely agree with you. I'm just pointing out that sometimes we get > forced to implement ugly requirements. 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