IMO it's crazy. You have to ask yourself WHY Windows Installer is the corporate standard in the first place. MSI is transactional, declarative, rich in meta data and transformable with standardized behaviors. You lose all of that when you choose to use it merely as a glorified ZIP and do everything else out of process.
---------------------------------------- From: "Walter Dexter" <wfdex...@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, October 14, 2013 7:21 PM To: "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: [WiX-users] What is the downside to this? I'm working on transitioning from Inno Setup to WiX due to corporate standards. I have some Inno that are fairly complex, running programs, setting INI values, registry settings, etc. If I set the Inno to not make itself uninstallable, I could just move the files out of it to an MSI, include the action-only Inno in the MSI, and run it as a custom action. The MSI would install files and the embedded Inno would do the other stuff. Does that make any sense at all? Is it inspired or crazy? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135031&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135031&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
