Christopher Painter actually explained it better (about 3 years ago) - http://community.flexerasoftware.com/archive/index.php?t-198832.html
1) One Execute Sequence per system 2) One UI Sequence per process > On Jan 23, 2015, at 7:39 PM, Joel Budreau <joel.budr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Once an MSI enters the InstallValidate (InstallInitialize) action in the > InstallExecuteSequence it will obtain a system-wide MSI lock. It will only > release it once it finishes the InstallFinalize action. > > So, the short answer is generally: two MSIs running the > InstallExecuteSequence at the same time is a no/no… > >> On Jan 23, 2015, at 6:11 PM, Steven Ogilvie <steven.ogil...@titus.com> wrote: >> >> Classification: Public >> I thought two MSI's running at same time is a no/no? >> >> Steve >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@firegiant.com] >> Sent: January-23-15 6:00 PM >> To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. >> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Doesn't the Bootstrapper check to see if another >> instance of itself is running? >> >> Do you mean Burn? If so, I've never seen it do that before. >> >> Note: Windows Installer will do the same thing. Launch an MSI twice, you >> should get two UIs running. >> >> _____________________________________________________________ >> Short replies here. Complete answers over there: http://www.firegiant.com/ >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: StevenOgilvie [mailto:sogil...@msn.com] >> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2015 12:30 PM >> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> Subject: [WiX-users] Doesn't the Bootstrapper check to see if another >> instance of itself is running? >> >> Hi, >> >> Just a quick question. >> >> Doesn't the Bootstrapper verify that it is not running another instance of >> itself? >> >> i.e. Launch your Installer (Bootstrapper) launch same installer again, two >> instances are now running... >> >> Steve >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. >> GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn. >> Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth. >> Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet >> _______________________________________________ >> WiX-users mailing list >> WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users >> >> >> This message has been marked as Public by Steven Ogilvie on January-23-15 >> 6:11:25 PM. >> >> The above classification labels were added to the message by TITUS Message >> Classification. >> For more information visit www.titus.com. >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. >> GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn. >> Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth. >> Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet >> _______________________________________________ >> WiX-users mailing list >> WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn. Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth. Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant. http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
