Re: [WiX-users] How to handle multiple versions

2013-06-17 Thread Tad Carlucci
Writing documentation required a depth of knowledge which I don't presently have. The WiX documentation suffers from presuming the user already has a deep understanding. Take a look at "Fundamental Tools and Concepts". There's NOTHING there! No concepts at all! It's nothing more than a list of

Re: [WiX-users] How to handle multiple versions

2013-06-17 Thread Rob Mensching
If you'd like to help us improve the documentation, that would be great. Unfortunately, we don't always think of every use case possible. The WiX toolset is extremely powerful so the space to document is pretty large. On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Tad Carlucci wrote: > Actually, I was able t

Re: [WiX-users] How to handle multiple versions

2013-06-17 Thread Tad Carlucci
Actually, I was able to do a web search and find a Very Old example of how to handle upgrades which actually described what why each XML clause was needed, and what it did. To bad the so-called documentation doesn't do that! I'll show what I came up with for the Basic case, so far.

Re: [WiX-users] How to handle multiple versions

2013-06-17 Thread Hoover, Jacob
com] Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 8:18 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to handle multiple versions Yes, there are three different upgrade guids already. At this point I have it so I can install all three versions and they'll upgrade

Re: [WiX-users] How to handle multiple versions

2013-06-17 Thread Tad Carlucci
ail.com] > Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 07:01 > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] How to handle multiple versions > > Can someone point me in the direction to reach this goal: > > My requirement is for three flavors of the application: Lite, Basic, and &g

Re: [WiX-users] How to handle multiple versions

2013-06-17 Thread Philip Patrick
m: Tad Carlucci [mailto:tad.carlu...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 07:01 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] How to handle multiple versions Can someone point me in the direction to reach this goal: My requirement is for three flavors of the application: Lite, Basi

[WiX-users] How to handle multiple versions

2013-06-16 Thread Tad Carlucci
Can someone point me in the direction to reach this goal: My requirement is for three flavors of the application: Lite, Basic, and Premium; each released as a separate MSI package. The user can only move up the chain. For example, if the Basic is installed, Lite cannot be installed. If, in the