Howdy, again, folks. I have been trying to "reuse" a single installer to deploy multiple "instances" of the same product to a single machine, and this seems to be impossible with a single MSI. The installing user will specify the instance name, path, etc, which distinguish it from other instances.
Can anyone validate/verify that my hard knocks larnin' to be accurate? It appears that ProductName and ProductID cannot be modified by manipulating properties within WiX to allow multiple instances of the same product. The Windows Installer is a convenient, portable delivery mechanism, but it seems to have a presumption of single-instance shrinkwrap inherent in it that precludes it from being used for less rigorous setup and configuration purposes. My current usage doesn't care about upgradeability or prevention of installation of the same or other versions... The only way this installer novice can find to accomplish my goal would be to wrap the "main" MSI in a shim application/installer which manipulates the properties in the "main" MSI database before installing it. Please tell me that I've overlooked the obvious. ;-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
