Re: [WiX-users] Bundles, shared packages, reference counting and major upgrades

2013-01-30 Thread Rob Mensching
olset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Bundles, shared packages, reference counting and major upgrades I spent some time becoming acquainted with the burn engine source, trying to figure this one out. Unless I'm missing something (which is entirely possible) it seems to me that Burn's dependency me

Re: [WiX-users] Bundles, shared packages, reference counting and major upgrades

2013-01-29 Thread Simon Detheridge
I spent some time becoming acquainted with the burn engine source, trying to figure this one out. Unless I'm missing something (which is entirely possible) it seems to me that Burn's dependency mechanism doesn't handle Major Upgrades at all. There are two situations that cause a problem: Bundl

[WiX-users] Bundles, shared packages, reference counting and major upgrades

2013-01-28 Thread Simon Detheridge
Hi List, Here is a contrived example of something that approximates what I'm trying to do in the real world: I have 2 bundles, both of which use a shared component. I only want one copy of the shared component on the machine. Newer versions of the shared component are guaranteed to be backward