Friedrich,
I understand your pain, but I'm not a member of the WiX team, I'm not an
employee of MS, and I have no involvement with the MSI team, so I'm
basically on the same side of the 'problem' as you are.
To be totally honest, I haven't found an installation tool I like YET. The
thing I do like about WiX is that everything is basically open-box. It's
like working with assembly language - if you can't figure out how to do
something, it just means one of two things - it isn't possible (at all) or
you just don't know enough... I prefer that to 'I think it's possible,
but the stupid tool won't let me do it'.
Kelly
Friedrich Dominicus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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05/28/2008 12:05 AM
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Kelly Leahy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject
Re: [WiX-users] Create EXE wrapper around my MSI?
Kelly Leahy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It sounds like your registration is happening in the wrong 'stage' of
the install... Just because you're
> elevated in some places, it doesn't mean the entire run of the install
is elevated. I think the elevation
> only occurs during the installexecutesequence, and only during the
> server side part of it, and maybe not even
> the whole thing.
> I'm sure this comment isn't all that helpful, but maybe it will point
you in the right direction. Can you
> actually tell where the registration is sequenced?
Please do not take this as a personal critique. You wrote "I think"
.... So that means you are not sure, which is fine but the answers
here are often "I think" that means to me the whole not I'm getting
"personal" "crap" of MSI was just invented to make programmers live as
hard as possible. There is a whole sorry (brain-dead) machinery needed
to get something installed and it's even worse if one get's into the
COM or even worse device installation area. Just how many tools do
exist for "building" installers? What the hell do we gain with such
complex installation voodo?
Regards
Friedrich
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