Re: [WiX-users] Patching multiple versions

2013-06-24 Thread Blair Murri
There are ways but Major Version Patches are officially discouraged (see MSDN). > Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 21:41:45 -0700 > From: nickra...@hotmail.com > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Patching multiple versions > > Actually, trying my idea didn

Re: [WiX-users] Patching multiple versions

2013-06-23 Thread Nick Ramirez
Actually, trying my idea didn't work for me. It may not be possible to have a single patch file that updates multiple versions. However, you may be able to create a patch for each version that you want to update. For each one, keep the PatchFamily's Id the same (that way they'll maintain their corr

Re: [WiX-users] Patching multiple versions

2013-06-23 Thread Nick Ramirez
I haven't tried it, but could you add a PatchFamily for each version that you want patch? Each PatchFamily would have a Version to identify the product version to update. You would not use the PatchFamily's ProductCode attribute at all. Instead, the parent Patch element's TargetProductName would ma

[WiX-users] Patching multiple versions

2013-06-19 Thread Sudripta Nandy
Hello All, We have a product for which versions 1.0.0, 1.0.1 and 1.0.2 have been released. For each of these versions, the product code was auto-generated to enable automatic removal of previous version before installation of new MSI. Now, we have released version 1.0.3 and I am trying to cr