Any particular reason they do this? (I'm not bashing folks or anything like that; I'm simply genuinely curious what the advantage would be in doing this)
As Chris mentioned, you could modify the maintenance process to support your needs, leaving the product installed. If that option doesn't appeal to you and you simply want your ideal way of "the MSI would un-install itself after it finished creating the database", here's a rather interesting option: Presuming your SQL installation routine doesn't use a rollback script... you could, force failure after your SQL installation is complete (which would then 'rollback the installation' and leave your DB stuff intact while not leaving the MSI [shim] installed). Modify the UI end dialogs accordingly. (though the MSI error code returned would still be failure, but if nothing's looking at that, what the heck, right?) Or if that's too corny, you could wrap the MSI; either an external UI handler [a bit of work] or simply a batch script [or simply a utility] to perform the installation, then when completed, perform a silent un-installation. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Zak Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 8:00 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Multiple Installs without Un-Install? I spoke to three different teams in our organization and they all use an MSI to install a database. I decided to try this as an alternative to the DOS batch script I used in the previous version of our software. On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:14 AM, John Nannenga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ideally, the MSI would un-install itself after it finished creating the > > database. > > This might be off topic, but curiosity got the best of me; given that to be > the case, why would this be in an MSI at all? > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Zak > Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 12:05 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; General discussion for Windows > Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Multiple Installs without Un-Install? > > The user wants to have the ability to install a database from any remote > machine. Also, additional databases would be installed at some other point > in time (e.g. perhaps 3 months later the user decides they need a second > database). > > Ideally, the MSI would un-install itself after it finished creating the > database. > Cheers, > Daniel > > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 6:19 AM, Christopher Painter < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You could modify the maintenance UI experience to have an option for > > creating additional database instances which would then execute your > script > > again but I'm wondering if it wouldn't be simpler to just write a small > > application utility and put it in the start menu to allow a user to > perform > > database management functions like creating additional named database > > instances. > > > > How do you feel about that? > > > > --- On Wed, 7/23/08, Daniel Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > From: Daniel Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Multiple Installs without Un-Install? > > > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > > Date: Wednesday, July 23, 2008, 1:28 AM > > > Hi Christopher, > > > > > > I need multiple instances only of the database. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > Daniel > > > > > > > > > > Message: 9 > > > > Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:31:10 -0700 (PDT) > > > > From: Christopher Painter > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Multiple Installs without > > > Un-Install? > > > > To: "General discussion for Windows Installer XML > > > toolset." > > > > <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > > > > Message-ID: > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > > > > > > > Windows Installer supports multiple instance > > > installation, but the question > > > > I have is do you need multiple instances of your > > > product or only multiple > > > > instances of your database? > > > > > > > > Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering > > > Blog > > > > Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good > > > thread that deserves > > > > attention? E-Mail Me > > > > > > > > > > > > --- On Mon, 7/21/08, Daniel Zak > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > From: Daniel Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > Subject: [WiX-users] Multiple Installs without > > > Un-Install? > > > > > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > > > > Date: Monday, July 21, 2008, 11:51 PM > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > > > I created a script to install an SQL Server > > > database. A > > > > > user needs to be > > > > > able to run the script multiple times to install > > > multiple > > > > > databases. > > > > > However, the script requires the user to first > > > un-install > > > > > the product (which > > > > > does not delete the database) before being able > > > to install > > > > > a new database. > > > > > > > > > > Is there anything I can do to avoid requiring the > > > user to > > > > > explicitly > > > > > un-install the product? > > > > > > > > > > I included an extract of the script as a text > > > file. > > > > > > > > > > Thank you, > > > > > Daniel > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move > > > Developer's challenge > > > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK > > > & win great prizes > > > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event > > > anywhere in the world > > > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > > > _______________________________________________ > > > WiX-users mailing list > > > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's > > challenge > > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great > > prizes > > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the > world > > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > > _______________________________________________ > > WiX-users mailing list > > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's > challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great > prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's > challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great > prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
