#1
How long before you ship?
Search for "self-extract" and many of what comes up can be set to run a
command-line at the end of the extract. I recently used some sort of
WinZip-like program. I've also successfully used IExpress in the past.
#2
As far as I have been able to gather the reason is that Windows Installer
stores two bits of data separately: the "SourceList" which are a list of
directories used to search for cached copies of the original MSI file, and
the name of the MSI, in case some of those cache directories contain other
MSI files as well. So, they combine each path with the expected filename and
if they don't find the package with the needed PackageGuid, they continue on
to the next path in the list, prompting and/or failing when they are done.
#3
I can't speak for Christopher but I would assume he was indicating something
like this:
<Condition Message="You must not rename the msi file!">
[OriginalDatabase] >> "\MYSUPPORTEDFILENAME.msi"
</Condition>
The comparison operator is ">>" (that isn't an email artifact).
However, I'm concerned that may cause repairs and/or removals to fail.
-----Original Message-----
From: Lukas Haase [mailto:lukasha...@gmx.at]
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 3:27 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Does the msi-filename matter?
Dear Blair, Dear Christopher,
Thank you for your reply.
Am 22.07.2010 00:11, schrieb Blair:
> [...]
> This is part of the reason huge numbers of software producers distributing
> over the internet use self-extract-and-launch-style wrappers (zip-exe
style)
> for their MSI distribution.
Do you have a recommendation for such a tool?
> [...]
> It is true that changing the MSI file name forces a major upgrade.
Isn't this really dumb? I am kind of disappointed of MSI... Everything
gets a GUID in order to be REALLY sure that everything just depends on
an ID and not on a name etc. And then...that?!
> [...] I would suggest something like
> [OriginalDatabase]>> \MYSUPPORTEDFILENAME.msi
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370562(VS.85).aspx
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368012(VS.85).aspx
Is this what you mean?
<Condition Message="You must not rename the msi file!">
OriginalDatabase ~<> "\MYSUPPORTEDFILENAME.msi"
</Condition>
Regards,
Luke
> Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog
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>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Lukas Haase<lukasha...@gmx.at>
> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Sent: Wed, July 21, 2010 4:42:20 PM
> Subject: [WiX-users] Does the msi-filename matter?
>
> Hi,
>
> Does the filename of the msi file matter in any way?
>
> I really DO NOT hope so! Because I have no influence if the user renames
> the file before installing?!
>
> [1] says: "There are cases when the Windows Installer forces you to use
> a major upgrade [...] You have to when you change the name of the .msi
> file for any reason. [...]"
>
> Regards,
> Luke
>
>
>
>
> [1] http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson4.php#4.1
>
>
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