The features of WiX can help you create a large installation. The question is how large your install is and how many different SKUs of your product you will release. These are the large issues. Using wixlibs and ComponentGroups get you to a point. You obviously need to author the source content as well. In direct reference to Office. They release Word independently of the entire suite. Are you looking to do that as well? This would be a form of SKU'ing in which you need to start figuring out Product Reference counting as well.
Thanks, Brian Rogers "Intelligence removes complexity." - Me http://blogs.msdn.com/icumove On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 9:25 PM, dB. <dbl...@dblock.org> wrote: > I am curious why you "cannot use a bootstrapper" ? > > An insanely complex MSI is not something I would recommend, having seen too > many of those. > > dB. @ dblock.org > Moscow|Geneva|Seattle|New York > > > -----Original Message----- > From: puyo puy [mailto:puyo...@yahoo.com] > Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 7:04 PM > To: wix users > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to create a big MSI like Microsoft Office > > > > > > Thanks Bob but all individual team have to prepare their > installer(s), I just need to consolidates all the installers and create a > big MSI. Originally we want to create a big MSI and > calling different MSI but window installer not allow us to do it. That is > why I’m thinking of using merge > modules. > > > > --- On Tue, 9/3/10, Bob Arnson <b...@joyofsetup.com> wrote: > > From: Bob Arnson <b...@joyofsetup.com> > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to create a big MSI like Microsoft Office > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Received: Tuesday, 9 March, 2010, 9:21 PM > > On 3/9/2010 12:10 AM, puyo puy wrote: > > mean I cannot use bootstrapper. I’m think of creating msm for each > product and > > assign a feature for each msm. > > There's no need for merge modules; use a ComponentGroup instead. > > -- > sig://boB > http://joyofsetup.com/ > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
