On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 05:13, Pally Sandher <pally.sand...@iesve.com> wrote: > 5 - XP RTM & SP1 ship with Windows Installer 2.0. SP2 ships with Windows > Installer 3.0. SP3 ships with Windows Installer 3.1. I know SP2 has Windows > Installer 3.1 pushed to it by Windows Updates so it's fair to assume XP > systems have Windows Installer 3.1. Server 2003 SP2 & XP64 also ship with > Windows Installer 3.1. There is a Windows Installer 4.5 redistributable > available for pre-Vista O/S but it's not pushed by Windows Updates so don't > rely on it unless you're willing to bootstrap it (or don't mind your > installers failing to run for people who don't have it). > > To answer your question, Yes. Unless Microsoft decide to push Windows > Installer 5.0 pre-Windows 7 machines (don't hold your breath).
To clarify further, my understanding is MSIINSTALLPERUSER support relies on capabilities of Windows 7, so a backport of MSI 5.0 or later would not expose MSIINSTALLPERUSER's behavior on earlier operating systems. Michael -- Michael Urman ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
