Re: [WiX-users] Advice Needed / Package Custom Config File

2013-01-29 Thread Peter Shirtcliffe
of each MSI produced. The Wix help has sections on creating builds that will help so do have a look in there. -Original Message- From: Greg Deward [mailto:greg.dew...@gmail.com] Sent: 29 January 2013 12:44 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-us

Re: [WiX-users] Advice Needed / Package Custom Config File

2013-01-29 Thread Greg Deward
Unfortunately, based on our current requirements, we must not prompt the user in any way nor may we require them to download a second file. Our client has requested that certain customer-specific variables be known by the application during install. The application must supply these variables

Re: [WiX-users] Advice Needed / Package Custom Config File

2013-01-29 Thread Peter Shirtcliffe
If your MSI packages are always the same apart from that single configuration file, one way to do it would be to exclude file from the MSI. Then create a single, static MSI and let the application download the config file at runtime and configure itself, if it hasn't already done so. This would be