.msi is just a installation packaging method that standardizes ARP
entries, uninstallation, upgrades, adds self-repair and so on. If used
properly it makes things *easier* to Mozilla, not harder.
You can of course do all that with exe too, but msi also allows
customers to modify installation easily, which .exe does not. (edit
ini-entries, add or remove files and so on).
Timo Pietilä
On 21.8.2017 16:53, Mikko Järvinen wrote:
Hi
Unfortunately there seems to be some misunderstanding from Mozilla's
part about msi packages (and Windows Installer) and why many customers
have for over ten years expressed their desire to get msi packages
straight from Mozilla. Providing an msi wrapper as a solution quite
misses the point. It is a start, however, and you must start from somewhere.
...
Do not think this as a repackaging process which happens after build,
because then you are on a completely wrong track and you will never
reach your destination.
...
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