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> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Searching for existing files but only once
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> > From: Markus Karg [mailto:k...@quipsy.de]
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> -Original Message-
> From: Markus Karg [mailto:k...@quipsy.de]
> Actually the problem is that it is impossible to learn from the WiX
> documentation / MSI documentation that what we actually want is just
> impossible, due to two facts:
I wouldn't say it is impossible. Many, many people b
09, 2010 5:10 AM
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> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Searching for existing files but only once
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> Well like I said, it won't ("the searching for the old application will
> always happen"). You can't do that wi
> -Original Message-
> From: Markus Karg [mailto:k...@quipsy.de]
> Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2010 7:37 AM
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> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Searching for existing files but only once
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> > I assure you, all o
> I assure you, all of us were beginners once. And, of course,
> learning
> WiX is almost trivial; it's MSI that's hard.
That's not true in one point: WiX comes with lots of stuff that has
nothing to do with MSI. See the extensions. Maybe somebody write a
brilliant custom task that does what we ne
ince it
leads to flame wars in the end.
Regards
Markus
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> From: Castro, Edwin G. (Hillsboro) [mailto:edwin.cas...@fiserv.com]
> Sent: Freitag, 9. April 2010 21:52
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> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Searchi
On 4/9/2010 3:52 PM, Castro, Edwin G. (Hillsboro) wrote:
> Therefore, when one has a question one needs to formulate it so that the
> question demonstrates understanding. A general format for a question is "I'm
> trying to ... I have tried ... I read that ... I don't understand why ... Can
> you
On 4/9/2010 9:51 AM, Pally Sandher wrote:
> Everyone on this list with the exception of Rob M, Bob A& the rest of
> the core WiX dev team was a beginner with WiX at one time.
I assure you, all of us were beginners once. And, of course, learning
WiX is almost trivial; it's MSI that's hard.
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> From: Pally Sandher [mailto:pally.sand...@iesve.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 6:52 AM
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> "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset" doesn't mean
> "e-mail here to ask for help on every little issue you get stuck on
> without trying to figure it out for yourself". Maybe I'm being too
> harsh
> on yourself but there's a lot of people posting questions on here
which
> can be
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From: Markus Karg [mailto:k...@quipsy.de
> Any chance you might start thinking for yourself sometime soon?
Actually I do not understand why writing this. We are beginners with MSI
and WiX and have no clue what is there for free out of the box, and what
must be done with special tasks. Possibly there would be something that
can prevent ac
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From: Markus Karg [mailto:k...@quipsy.de]
Sent: 09 April 2010 12:38
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Searching for existing files but only once
I do not understand how this will prevent that the DirectorySe
scussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Searching for existing files but only once
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> Something like the following should work:
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From: Markus Karg [mailto:k...@quipsy.de]
Sent: 08 April 2010 14:20
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: [WiX-users] Searching for existing files but only once
We need to upgrade a preinstalled software. That s
We need to upgrade a preinstalled software. That software is very old
and knows nothing of MSI, Registry etc. We actually have to search all
local drives for the old EXE file and remove the surrounding folder. As
this is a time consuming task, this shall only happen if this is really
an update of t
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