Re: [WiX-users] Condition Table generation

2010-05-24 Thread bpackard
Ultimately I am controlling what the user sees, the stripping out of the merge modules is simply reducing the size of the package. Using the condition table I have a consistent feature table for all packages, and encapsulate exclusions within each package. Probably FeatureGroups will work, but a

Re: [WiX-users] Condition Table generation

2010-05-24 Thread MikeR
The Condition table is designed for enabling/disabling which features get installed at install-time. It sounds like your intent is to control which features get included into your various MSIs at build-time. For your situation the use of shared install code would enable you to have a similar set

Re: [WiX-users] Condition Table generation

2010-05-24 Thread bpackard
Mike, Basically I need to adjust the feature tree for each MSI. Each of the 10 MSIs is a distinct product package with a unique upgrade code. Payload is attached to features via mergemodules. If the feature tree contains features A and B, with sub-features A0 - An, B0 - Bn, the first MSI could

Re: [WiX-users] Condition Table generation

2010-05-21 Thread MikeR
I'm not sure I follow exactly what you'd like to accomplish. WiX has a lot of tools for sharing installation code between projects and conditionally including setup logic with preprocessor variables, etc. I'm confident you'll be able to accomplish what you want with WiX. The Condition table is

[WiX-users] Condition Table generation

2010-05-21 Thread Bill Packard
I am in the process of attempting to migrate several (10) installs from Wise to Wix and have come across an issue I am not certain how best to deal with. Nine of the installs are branded versions of the first, each of which only differs slightly from the main install. In Wise I used the condition t