I've been looking over the WiX setup code which is used to create the WiX Toolset installer and had a best practice question regarding putting all support for Visual Studio versions into one MSI. WiX supports VS2005 and VS2008 and installs addins all in the same MSI. I'm actually in the same boat where my company has support for VS2005 and VS2008 addins but they are currently implemented in two separate MSIs. Now, I would like to move them into one MSI just like the Wix installer. However, my one concern is that in the future, if for example we decide to deprecate VS2005 support, we have the following issues:
1) If they are in separate MSIs, I just stop building that MSI 2) If they are in the same MSI, I still have to build that VS2005 code. If I remove the wix code for VS2005, then when I install this new MSI on a machine that already has an existing version of this MSI, won't it remove the VS2005 components from the system since my new MSI no longer has those components? Anyway, I just wanted to see if the Wix team thought about this and if so, how are you planning on addressing questions 2) above. -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Questions-on-Why-WiX-Installer-Combines-the-VSAddIns-into-One-MSI-tp2890434p2890434.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
