Sascha, Where does one obtain the merge modules you listed below? I've not been able to find the VC Runtime as a Merge Module.
-----Original Message----- From: Sascha Beaumont [mailto:sascha.beaum...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 4:42 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Microsoft merge modules and policy modules, what to include? Hi, Looking over http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2007/02/13/building-an-msi-using-wix-v3-0-that-includes-the-vc-8-0-runtime-merge-modules.aspx I see the following note: <update date="2/11/2009"> Removed references to policy MSMs because the general recommendation is to not include policy MSMs when redistributing the VC runtime files. </update> We're distributing policy modules with our application (full module list below) - can anyone point me in the right direction as to where this "general recommendation" is documented? Or what problems including or excluding the policy modules may cause or solve? As a side note, can anyone confirm if any of the modules I'm including below are not required on particular operating systems? Specifically the last four which showed up during a dependency scan on a 3rd party library we use. We support Windows 2000/XP and later and from peeking inside the modules I can tell that GDIPlus is not installed on anything later than Windows 2000 but the others seem to have no such conditions. GDIPlus.msm VC_User_CRT71_RTL_X86_---.msm Microsoft_VC80_CRT_x86.msm policy_8_0_Microsoft_VC80_CRT_x86.msm Microsoft_VC80_MFC_x86.msm policy_8_0_Microsoft_VC80_MFC_x86.msm MSVCRT.MSM COMCAT.MSM MFC42.MSM MSVCIRT.MSM Cheers, Sascha ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
