Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and side by side with the same installer

2014-03-08 Thread Walt Dexter
-Original Message- > From: Walter Dexter [mailto:wfdex...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, March 07, 2014 6:21 AM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and side by side with the same installer > > Silly naive question... Would

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and side by side with the same installer

2014-03-07 Thread Bryan Wolf
Phil Wilson [mailto:phildgwil...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 7, 2014 12:54 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and side by side with the same installer I'm not recommending this, but technically it might be possible to have one MSI file a

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and side by side with the same installer

2014-03-07 Thread Bryan Wolf
re no longer at an n! problem but just a nice linear n :-) -Original Message- From: Bryan Wolf Sent: Friday, March 7, 2014 3:03 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Upgrade and side by side with the same installer This solution would also require a numb

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and side by side with the same installer

2014-03-07 Thread Phil Wilson
side. > > --Pavan > > -Original Message- > From: Walter Dexter [mailto:wfdex...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, March 07, 2014 6:21 AM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and side by side with the same installer > > Sill

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and side by side with the same installer

2014-03-07 Thread Pavan Konduru
Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and side by side with the same installer Silly naive question... Would giving each version a different Upgrade codeand a version based destination directory (like MyApp.1.1.1 instead of just MyApp) accomplish at least most of what

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and side by side with the same installer

2014-03-07 Thread Walter Dexter
mpilers on VS2012) are green-lighted based on presence. > > -Original Message- > From: Pavan Konduru [mailto:pavan.kond...@accelrys.com] > Sent: Thursday, March 6, 2014 3:01 PM > To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and side by si

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and side by side with the same installer

2014-03-06 Thread Bryan Wolf
neral discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and side by side with the same installer Another way of looking at what John is suggesting is considering that you probably want to take a step back a moment and focus more on version 3 and less on version 2. You're looki

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and side by side with the same installer

2014-03-06 Thread Pavan Konduru
discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and side by side with the same installer Another way of looking at what John is suggesting is considering that you probably want to take a step back a moment and focus more on version 3 and less on version 2. You're looking at

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and side by side with the same installer

2014-03-06 Thread Bryan Wolf
Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® Shawnee Mission, KS  66227 Office:  913-341-3434 x791011 jocoo...@jackhenry.com www.jackhenry.com -Original Message- From: Hoover, Jacob [mailto:jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2014 4:27 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and side by side with the same installer

2014-03-06 Thread Pavan Konduru
and maintenance. --Pavan -Original Message- From: John Cooper [mailto:jocoo...@jackhenry.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2014 2:48 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and side by side with the same installer No (it's not a good archite

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and side by side with the same installer

2014-03-06 Thread Hoover, Jacob
M To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and side by side with the same installer Hi Jacob, Thank you for your inputs. When you say Custom BA do you mean in the bootstrapper? The WIX upgrade functionality does the following am assuming automatically for

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and side by side with the same installer

2014-03-06 Thread Pavan Konduru
From: Pavan Konduru [mailto:pavan.kond...@accelrys.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2014 3:04 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. (wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net) Subject: [WiX-users] Upgrade and side by side with the same installer Hi All, Is it possible to create an installer that

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and side by side with the same installer

2014-03-05 Thread John Cooper
Mission, KS  66227 Office:  913-341-3434 x791011 jocoo...@jackhenry.com www.jackhenry.com -Original Message- From: Hoover, Jacob [mailto:jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2014 4:27 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and si

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and side by side with the same installer

2014-03-05 Thread Hoover, Jacob
nduru [mailto:pavan.kond...@accelrys.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2014 3:04 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. (wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net) Subject: [WiX-users] Upgrade and side by side with the same installer Hi All, Is it possible to create an installer that would do an upgra

[WiX-users] Upgrade and side by side with the same installer

2014-03-05 Thread Pavan Konduru
Hi All, Is it possible to create an installer that would do an upgrade or side-by-side based on the user input? Say we have 1.0 installed. When the user runs a version 2.0 of the same product, give him a choice to either upgrade the existing or install as a side by side. Is it a good architect