Title: RE: [WiX-users] Multi-language msi
Ah ok. I’m not certain, but I
believe I’ve heard two things about that method:
- It’s
not officially supported by the MSI team (they discourage people from
using it). I’m not sure why though.
- I
believe you cannot create a patch to modify the strings which come from
the transform because the transform is always applied last. This would be
a geo-political risk if one of the strings in your setup was found to be
offensive.
Derek
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Subject: Re: [WiX-users]
Multi-language msi
To make multi-language msi's right now you:
1)Make a normal msi in your primary lanuage (english in my case)
2)Make normal msi's in the other languages.
3)Run MsiTran once each on your primary language and each of your secondary
ones.
This builds a transform (delta) between the primary and each secondary.
4)Stuff the MsiTran generated deltas into the primary msi
5)Set the SummaryInfo to include all the languages it now includes
then when msiexec runs it first compares the current os/user setting with the
options in the SummaryInfo and if it matches one it applies that ones transfom
before showing the UI.
-----Original Message-----
From: Derek Cicerone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sat 8/5/2006 5:38 PM
To: John Lemire; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Multi-language msi
What is the MsiTran SummaryInfo mechanism?
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On Behalf Of John
Lemire
Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2006 5:22 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Multi-language msi
Hi,
We are currently using the MsiTran / SummaryInfo mechanism to build a
single msi for English, French, German, and Italian. We're being asked
to add Japanese, Chinese, and Korean and I was thinking if wix would
make this easier maybe now would be a good time to invest resources in
porting to wix. However the wix localization info I've read so far seems
to point to separate installers for each language. Are there any
examples of how to author a multi-language msi using the wix syntax/tool
set?
thanks
-john
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