ng"
Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2012 10:58 AM
To: "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset."
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Cascading Merge Modules
Merge Modules are a build time concept only. The Windows Installer does
not
undersstand them at all. This fact is a larg
Merge Modules are a build time concept only. The Windows Installer does not
undersstand them at all. This fact is a large part of the reason Merge
Modules are dying. One key issue is that Merge Modules make things very
difficult to patch (because patching was implemented after Merge Modules
but did
t; techniques such as fragments and libraries to do this within WiX at the
> source and linker layers prior to generating MSIs.
>
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> From: "Andreas"
>
> Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2011 4:03 AM
>
> To: wix-users@lists
techniques such as fragments and libraries to do this within WiX at the
source and linker layers prior to generating MSIs.
From: "Andreas"
Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2011 4:03 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users]
David,
Thanks for your reply. I always thought that MSM is used for a "common
component" that can be installed from different MSI installers. The
"common component" should be uninstalled when the last MSI is unstalled
using a kind of reference management.
Your proposal uses a different approac
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