Hi Guys, I wonder if you could give some advice on installer technology. We are a small company with a number of products based on VB6. Our flagship product comprises about 20 (VB6) ActiveX dlls and a couple of ActiveX .exe servers and about 500 resource files. A typical install is between 200 and 500Mb. In addition to the installer we have a web based update utility that allows us to distribute patches via the internet. We typically release one new patch a week. We localise the product and installer for about 15 countries including Greek, hebrew, Suomi (Finnish). We are considering Chinese, Japanese and Bengali. We need to support Xp and Vista ( and preferably Win98)
Our current installer and updater are home grown, based on the original VB6 setup engine. Increasingly our product is being taken up by schools who find our non-standard installer difficult to manage. We are therfore looking for alternative installers/updater such as Click Once/Click Through or MSI based. My questions are: 1) Is Click Through stable enough to be considered for commercial use? 2) Is it suitable for VB6 applications (as opposed to .net apps)? 3) If I cant use Click Through, is it possible to use Wix/MSI technologies and web based technology to deliver patches. Note that some of our files are quite large and it is important that we don't download files that are not required. Many thanks Rob Series Sensory Software International ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
