David, there are actually a lot of advantages to breaking language packs out. Servicing in particular can be easier. Burn adds a couple features (add-on related bundles) that make doing language packs really sweet.
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 8:26 AM, David Watson <dwat...@sdl.com> wrote: > Jeepers, you should just include the language packs in the products and > put a > language selection in the product. > > 59 language packs is a headache to manage separately. > > -----Original Message----- > From: TimM [mailto:timmay...@smarttech.com] > Sent: 14 March 2013 17:37 > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Looking at WiX to generate a Chained > installpackage. > > And that is what we are looking for, simplicity for the admins. Our Chained > product contains 5 main product installers and up to 59 language pack > installers and therefore we did not want to have the system admin to have > to > enter so many installer .msi. > > So having a single chain .msi to push would be a lot better than having > multiple msi's.. > > Thanks, > > Tim. > > From: Wyrdfish [via Windows Installer XML (WiX) toolset] > [mailto:ml-node+s687559n7584353...@n2.nabble.com] > Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 11:06 AM > To: Tim Mayert > Subject: Re: Looking at WiX to generate a Chained installpackage. > > Not really sure what you are meaning by an embedded UI here. GPO publishes > MSIs silently to client machines. > > Also its possible to push several MSIs as part of one policy (we have to > document this for our customers so they can install prerequisites) so I > don't > see an absolute requirement for chaining apart from simplicity. > > Dave W. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Mensching [mailto:[hidden > email]</user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=7584353&i=0>] > Sent: 13 March 2013 18:14 > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Looking at WiX to generate a Chained > installpackage. > > That or a embedded UI would need to be implemented in the WiX toolset. > Personally, I jumped over that feature and went for the full blown > bootstrapper/chainer with Burn... but GPO functionality does suffer a bit. > Might be an interesting feature to implement in the future to provide a > "stock embedded UI" from WiX toolset. > > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 6:22 AM, TimM <[hidden > email]</user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=7584353&i=1>> wrote: > > > Since we still have a lot of our customers that still use GPO for pushing > > out > > our software we still have to have a .msi solution. 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