I'm keen to avoid doing that since it means creating the bootstrapper. It just doesn't seem quite right to me to have to do that.
Thanks for the suggestion, but I think for now I'll stick to changing the product Id. Do you know if there's any undesirable side effects to doing this? Cheers, Adam -----Original Message----- From: John Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 October 2008 18:22 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How Update / Upgrade strategy (small, minor, major) affect file overriding? > The only way I've got this to work at the moment is by > manually changing the Product Id and checking it in before > doing a publish to avoid the annoying "another version of > this product is already installed..." message. Otherwise it > forces the user to uninstall the previous version before > installing the new version - something that I've never had to > do with any serious commercial package. > > Is what I'm doing wrong, and if so what alternatives do I have? You could do minor upgrades for your nightly builds - this requires passing REINSTALLMODE=vomus on the msiexec commandline, so would probably require being wrapped in a bootstrapper. Regards, John ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
