What you don't mention are the following: Which of the 21 MSIs are written in WiX (as opposed to InstallShield) and how many (of each) are written in older versions of each of those two toolsets.
Will you be supplying your own UI binary (a bootstrapper) or will you be attempting to combine the various UIs of each of those 21 MSIs (using Windows Installer UI)? How complicated is the UI of any of those 21 MSIs? -----Original Message----- From: Carter, Patrick [mailto:patrick.car...@stryker.com] Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 5:47 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] WiX, InstallShield and combining multiple MSIs I have a question regarding WiX and the referenced installation tools. I am not a Windows Installer expert (I am not even sure if you could call my skill level a newbie!), but I have been tasked with a project and I need to get up to speed fast. The question is likely very easy: I have an installation that requires several prerequisites (.NET 3.5 SP1, Microsoft WSE 3.0, 64-bit OS, etc...) The previous development team (almost all of who are gone) built 21 MSI files for each "Feature" each MSI having multiple "components" This currently gives us a night mare for version control, patches, etc... I have been tasked with building a CD-based "install" that check the pre-reqs (this I can do) and get all these MSI's into one install so they can be selected and de-selected as "features". What is the fastest and most reliable way to do that (assuming the original expertise from the guy who wrote the WiX script that builds the MSI's is gone)? Thanks for any help pointing me in the right direction. I have the latest Wix toolset, Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 and InstallShield 2010 as my tools. Patrick Carter ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ 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 Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
