Re: [WiX-users] How to selectively NOT install file if file already exists on system

2009-06-24 Thread Sascha Beaumont
Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2009 8:31 PM > To: chr...@deploymentengineering.com; General discussion for Windows > Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to selectively NOT install file if file already > exists on system > > I've never had an issue where the custo

Re: [WiX-users] How to selectively NOT install file if file already exists on system

2009-06-16 Thread Wilson, Phil
ile won't be replaced. Something like that sounds like it should work for you. Phil From: Rob Mensching [...@wixtoolset.org] Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2009 10:47 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users]

Re: [WiX-users] How to selectively NOT install file if file already exists on system

2009-06-15 Thread David Bartmess
olset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to selectively NOT install file if file already exists on system I've never had an issue where the customer wasn't right, if they wanted to do something and I couldn't do it "properly" then our installation was broken. There are plenty of tim

Re: [WiX-users] How to selectively NOT install file if file already exists on system

2009-06-14 Thread Rob Mensching
lity is we don't have the >> power to say the customer isn't right. >> >> Chris >> >> >> Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog >> Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves >> atten

Re: [WiX-users] How to selectively NOT install file if file already exists on system

2009-06-14 Thread Sascha Beaumont
Blog > Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves > attention? E-Mail Me > > > --- On Fri, 6/12/09, Rob Mensching wrote: > >> From: Rob Mensching >> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to selectively NOT install file if file already >> exists

Re: [WiX-users] How to selectively NOT install file if file already exists on system

2009-06-12 Thread Christopher Painter
ion of the component, unless I go in manually and run > a script to set the condition on the particular file. > > > > -Original Message----- > > From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@wixtoolset.org] > > Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 8:28 PM > > To: General discussion

Re: [WiX-users] How to selectively NOT install file if file already exists on system

2009-06-12 Thread Rob Mensching
> and run a script to set the condition on the particular file. > > -Original Message- > From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@wixtoolset.org] > Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 8:28 PM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How t

Re: [WiX-users] How to selectively NOT install file if file already exists on system

2009-06-12 Thread Christopher Painter
wrote: > From: David Bartmess > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to selectively NOT install file if file already > exists on system > To: "'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'" > > Date: Friday, June 12, 2009, 10:21 AM > 1. I agree. But

Re: [WiX-users] How to selectively NOT install file if file already exists on system

2009-06-12 Thread David Bartmess
, unless I go in manually and run a script to set the condition on the particular file. -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@wixtoolset.org] Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 8:28 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to selec

Re: [WiX-users] How to selectively NOT install file if file already exists on system

2009-06-11 Thread Rob Mensching
1. That is a very poor app design for installation. A few cases that are going to just be painful to get right declaratively. For example, what do you do on repair? Ick. Installation Tenet: don't let people modify the files that you install. 2. Why not do a FileSearch and Condition out the Comp