Chaining MSI's in an MSI is not supported so I am not sure how InstallShield does that. WiX bundles are chains of MIS's packaged as an EXE, this can easily be pushed out be admins as it supports unattended installs with command line parameters than can be pushed in to the chained MSI's in much the same way as an unattended MSI.
Neil >No we are not talking about nested installs. > >I am actually talking about a Chain installer that chains in a bunch of >.msi >project into a single msi package. > >InstallShield has this it correctly creates a single .msi package for >administrators to push out. > >We started looking at WiX and therefore are in the process of converting >all >our install project to WiX, but we did not know what Chaining capabilities >WiX had and therefore I was looking into this. > >InstallShield has some of their own custom actions to accomplish this: >ISChainPackageCommit, ISChainPackagePrepare and ISChainPackageRollback and >they have created their own tables to handle the data: ISChainPackage, >ISChainPackageData and they make use of the EmbeddedChainer > >The only issue is that they do not support individual product minor >upgrades >or patches and therefore we have only used it for major upgrades where all >product .msi are major upgrades. > >Anyways if WiX does not yet support a Chain package that generates a >single >.msi then I guess for this product we'll have to continue using >InstallShield. > >Thanks, > >Tim. > > > >-- >View this message in context: >http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Looking-at-W >iX-to-generate-a-Chained-install-package-tp7583963p7583994.html >Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >---- >Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. >Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics >Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: >http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb >_______________________________________________ >WiX-users mailing list >WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
