Re: [WiX-users] Advertised shortcuts and the new world of bundles

2014-11-04 Thread Phil Wilson
Advertised shortcuts don't cause repair to be unavailable, just the part that is associated with advertised shortcuts repairing the containing feature if a component is missing. In that sense it's not a product repair, just a feature repair. There's always manual repair if something does get remove

Re: [WiX-users] Advertised shortcuts and the new world of bundles

2014-11-03 Thread Phill Hogland
I have large DVD size setups authored in Installscript, which I am converting to wix. I have moved most of the applications to individual msi packages, batch built in seven languages, with external cabs. These packages are used in multiple bundles for different types of product configurations (cl

Re: [WiX-users] Advertised shortcuts and the new world of bundles

2014-11-03 Thread Nicolás Álvarez
> El 03/11/2014, a las 12:15, Phill Hogland escribió: > > Would it be a better approach to define a wixlib for the 'library' files and > use the wixlib in each msi package which requires the library, so that each > msi package is atomic from msi's perspective? Then on-demand install of > advert

Re: [WiX-users] Advertised shortcuts and the new world of bundles

2014-11-03 Thread Phill Hogland
Would it be a better approach to define a wixlib for the 'library' files and use the wixlib in each msi package which requires the library, so that each msi package is atomic from msi's perspective? Then on-demand install of advertised features would be complete. -- View this message in contex

Re: [WiX-users] Advertised shortcuts and the new world of bundles

2014-11-02 Thread Rob Mensching
With the design you've chosen, you've made advertised shortcuts less functional. _ Short replies here. Complete answers over there: http://www.firegiant.com/ -Original Message- From: Nicolás Alvarez [mailto:nicolas.alva...@gmai