Well, it all depends on your definition of "bootstrapper"? I have a habit of calling a chainer a bootstrapper interchangeably. <smile/>
Moradi, Ari wrote: > In WI 4.5, you don't need a bootstrapper. You do need to write a chainer > exe, but WI 4.5 lets you put that exe into the binary table of your "main" > MSI. I still think it's significantly easier to just write a bootstrapper > that does the chaining instead of writing a bootstrapper to upgrade to WI 4.5 > and an embedded chainer. But it is possible. > > -Ari > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@wixtoolset.org] > Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 10:51 AM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to include another MSI at my MSI > > Chained MSI installations still need a bootstrapper. MSI 4.5 just makes > the chain rollback much easier to implement. > > Curtis Jewell wrote: > >> You can't really do that unless you want to rely on a newer version of >> Windows Installer than a lot of people have. Instead, you'll want a >> bootstrapper to do it. dotNetInstaller is a good one, you may want to >> google it. Other people here may have other recommendations. >> >> If you want to restrict your MSI's to run on Windows Installer 4.5 or >> higher only [effectively a requirement for Windows XP SP2 or better, >> Windows Server 2003 SP1 or better, or Windows Vista or Server 2008 - and >> then you might want the bootstrapper anyway to install Windows Installer >> 4.5!], then you can implement chained installations. >> >> --Curtis >> >> On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:58 +0800, "Frank Li" <lzn...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >>> I want to include third part MSI at my product. >>> How to do it? >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial >>> Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited >>> royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing >>> server and web deployment. >>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects >>> _______________________________________________ >>> WiX-users mailing list >>> WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users >>> >>> >> -- >> Curtis Jewell >> swords...@csjewell.fastmail.us >> >> %DCL-E-MEM-BAD, bad memory >> -VMS-F-PDGERS, pudding between the ears >> >> [I use PC-Alpine, which deliberately does not display colors and pictures in >> HTML mail] >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial >> Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited >> royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing >> server and web deployment. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects >> _______________________________________________ >> WiX-users mailing list >> WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users >> >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial > Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited > royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing > server and web deployment. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial > Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited > royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing > server and web deployment. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
