For closure, and all future google searches that end up here: the task of getting my hands on a lib to just link into my action dll resulted in my getting my hands on a merge module that just does everything for me.
thanks everybody for your suggestions! Oren On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > "Oren Mazor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> what about creating a separate feature+component that installs that >> DLL into the temp folder, somewhere, does the evaluation required, and >> then does a rollback? > > You can't rollback features, only products. > > The typical way to deal with this is to unpack the binary yourself > into a known temporary location for your CA to use. If your CA must > run deferred, then you have to create a separate immediate CA that > unpacks the DLL to the known temporary location. This immediate CA > would pass the location of the unpacked DLL to the deferred CA through > its custom action data property. > -- > "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download > <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> > > Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
