Same here. I've heard people post for years about how Major Upgrades are a pain and you better follow the component rules to a letter if you want minor upgrades, small updates and patching to work. I've choosen to only support Major Upgrades and it's a bit of a vindication to now see the likes of Rob talk about why WiX's own installer only does Major Upgrades. Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me
----- Original Message ---- From: Neil Sleightholm <n...@x2systems.com> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Wed, July 21, 2010 5:58:54 PM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Does the msi-filename matter? But a key point is that this is only a possible** problem for minor upgrades. If you do major upgrades you can ignore it. **I say possible because I have never seen an issue but I mainly stick to major upgrade because they are less hassle. Neil -----Original Message----- From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent: 21 July 2010 23:12 To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Does the msi-filename matter? That could help reduce the chance of that problem, but depending on which file the user changes (the initial or the update) you may not get a chance to warn the user to not rename the MSI. In most of the failure cases I have seen due to not finding the MSI file at the indicated directory caused by looking for a different name than expected (usually due to attempting a minor upgrade using an MSI downloaded using IE) Windows Installer never even starts parsing any sequence table. This is part of the reason huge numbers of software producers distributing over the internet use self-extract-and-launch-style wrappers (zip-exe style) for their MSI distribution. -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@deploymentengineering.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 2:51 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Does the msi-filename matter? It is true that changing the MSI file name forces a major upgrade. If you are concerned that your user will interfere with your servicing strategy by renaming the MSI, you can use the OriginalDatabase property in a LaunchCondition to abort the install if they have renamed the MSI. I would suggest something like [OriginalDatabase] >> \MYSUPPORTEDFILENAME.msi http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370562(VS.85).aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368012(VS.85).aspx Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me ----- Original Message ---- From: Lukas Haase <lukasha...@gmx.at> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wed, July 21, 2010 4:42:20 PM Subject: [WiX-users] Does the msi-filename matter? Hi, Does the filename of the msi file matter in any way? I really DO NOT hope so! Because I have no influence if the user renames the file before installing?! [1] says: "There are cases when the Windows Installer forces you to use a major upgrade [...] You have to when you change the name of the .msi file for any reason. [...]" Regards, Luke [1] http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson4.php#4.1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
