Hi Graham,
We use "Inno Setup" as our bootstrapper. "Inno Setup" is a free, open source
software(http://www.innosetup.com/isinfo.php).
Here are the reasons:
1. If using Microsoft's bootstrapper, there will be two files generated: one
exe file and one MSI. For us, however, we sale our software online. In any
case, we just simply provide one package(either EXE or MSI file) for the end
user to download. By providing two download links would confuse our users. So
we need a bootstapper which can create a package that just "includes
everything".
2. We also OEM our software. Most of our customers don't like their end users
to look into the MSI file to check what is inside by using the tools such as
Orca. They need some kind of "locked" binary. So they prefer EXE file. Don't
ask me why, please. This is what they asked us.
3. Inno Setup is a full scale installer engine, easy to use, and feature rich.
You can make it no GUI when creating the bootstrapper.
/Brian
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