Re: [WiX-users] Allow installer to install over itself

2008-05-02 Thread Ken MacDonald
I did something kind of like this for a very lightweight install: I made every package into a major install, using the ??? syntax to update the appropriate UIDs and using a upgradecode, and generated a new version number each time using the year, month, day, and time of day as the major/minor/r

Re: [WiX-users] wix mailing lists open to public => more spam

2008-04-22 Thread Ken MacDonald
I implemented the spam filter one of the original posters suggested (a bunch of Chinese/Russian words OR'd together), with the additional of "AND wix-users" to restrict it only to this list (it caught a few non-wix legitimate messages that I wanted) and I've only rec'd. about 2 spams (both in Engli

[WiX-users] Location of SourceDir?

2008-03-20 Thread Ken MacDonald
Hi all, I'm real new at MSI and WiX. I've created a Votive/ Visual Studio project 'wixfoo' - currently there's only a single file in the WiX, macdok.foo, and it should be installed on a target system at c:\program files\RR Landscapes\RRfoo\macdok.foo. I've tried placing the .foo file in a ..\RR La