Re: [WiX-users] Environmet Variable Propagation

2009-06-26 Thread John Ludlow
o subsequent command prompts. So there's > something the installer is not doing. Also, I've only seen this in Windows > 2003. It works as expected in Windows 2008.Thanks,JW > > --- On Wed, 6/24/09, John Ludlow wrote: > > From: John Ludlow > Subject: Re: [WiX-users

Re: [WiX-users] Environmet Variable Propagation

2009-06-26 Thread JWalker
rompts. So there's something the installer is not doing. Also, I've only seen this in Windows 2003. It works as expected in Windows 2008.Thanks,JW --- On Wed, 6/24/09, John Ludlow wrote: From: John Ludlow Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Environmet Variable Propagation To: "General discuss

Re: [WiX-users] Environmet Variable Propagation

2009-06-24 Thread John Ludlow
If I remember correctly, environment variables are only written on InstallFinalize. Once the installation completes, the environment variable should be available. I think I ran into this once before, and our answer was to change the application (a config utility we would run as part of the instal

Re: [WiX-users] Environmet Variable Propagation

2009-06-24 Thread Sascha Beaumont
I've noticed that InstallShield sometimes uses it's own Custom Actions for what you might think are fairly simple operations. The best bet would be to create a basic MSI from InstallShield, decompile it, and see what the resulting wxs looks like. On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 2:55 AM, JW wrote: > Some l