If that's your main requirement then a self extracting ZIP would do the trick for you along with many other available tools. Personally I think that then causes another problem of not caching the extracted MSI in a permanent location in case of repair / maint. operations. A bootstrapper / chainer does so much more then wrap up your MSI into an EXE. In fact, if you aren't using any of these other capabilities the question then becomes 'why do you need a setup.exe anyways? just deploy the msi'.
Chris 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: Bruce Cran <br...@cran.org.uk> To: "wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net" <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Mon, August 30, 2010 3:45:33 AM Subject: [WiX-users] Bootstrapping and Burn Hi, I realise Burn has been removed from WiX 3.5, but I'm wondering if the Visual Studio bootstrapper would be a good substitute or if I should wait for a 3.6 snapshot. My main requirement is a single file that users can download to do the installation, since I hate having a setup.exe and MSI file because it's confusing and seems unnecessary. The only component of Burn I've ever used before is setupbld, but I'm wondering - will the output of Burn be a single exe, or will it be like VS where you have to package lots of MSIs and an exe into a zip file for distribution? -- Bruce Cran ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sell apps to millions through the Intel(R) Atom(Tm) Developer Program Be part of this innovative community and reach millions of netbook users worldwide. Take advantage of special opportunities to increase revenue and speed time-to-market. Join now, and jumpstart your future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-atom-d2d _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sell apps to millions through the Intel(R) Atom(Tm) Developer Program Be part of this innovative community and reach millions of netbook users worldwide. Take advantage of special opportunities to increase revenue and speed time-to-market. Join now, and jumpstart your future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-atom-d2d _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
