Re: [WiX-users] util:User, util:Group controlling sequencing...

2009-12-18 Thread Blair
ow the component rules, you should be able to use the that first method. -Original Message- From: Tony [mailto:yellowjacketl...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 7:24 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] util:User, util:Group c

Re: [WiX-users] util:User, util:Group controlling sequencing...

2009-12-15 Thread dB .
d complexity, but there's got to be APIs to do this. Cheers dB. dB. @ dblock.org Moscow|Geneva|Seattle|New York -Original Message- From: Tony [mailto:yellowjacketl...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 10:24 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subj

Re: [WiX-users] util:User, util:Group controlling sequencing...

2009-12-15 Thread Tony
Couple more questions... What if we want the user created on install, removed during uninstall, but NOT removed during the "uninstall" that occurs during major upgrade? Do we create two components with a component one with RemoveOnUninstall="yes" and the other with RemoveOnUninstall="no" and use

Re: [WiX-users] util:User, util:Group controlling sequencing...

2009-12-14 Thread Tony
Thanks for the complete response. On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Blair wrote: > None of those actions should ever occur during the UI sequence. The UI > sequence is intended exclusively for gathering information from the user to > guide the installation. -- Tony --

Re: [WiX-users] util:User, util:Group controlling sequencing...

2009-12-14 Thread Blair
None of those actions should ever occur during the UI sequence. The UI sequence is intended exclusively for gathering information from the user to guide the installation. Every action that changes the machine's state is to be performed from deferred actions which by definition run in the execute s