Have you guys tried using NSIS http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Main_Page ?

On Aug 30, 2010, at 11:36 AM, Christopher Painter wrote:

> I've looked at dotNetInstaller and while it looks very interesting,  there is 
> no 
> way you are going to learn that tool and get a working bootstrapper in 15 
> minutes.
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: dB. <dbl...@dblock.org>
> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. 
> <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Sent: Mon, August 30, 2010 8:23:36 AM
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrapping and Burn
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> http://dotnetinstaller.codeplex.com will get you there in 15 minutes or so.
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Cran [mailto:br...@cran.org.uk] 
> Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 4:46 AM
> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [WiX-users] Bootstrapping and Burn
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I realise Burn has been removed from WiX 3.5, but I'm wondering if the
> Visual Studio bootstrapper would be a good substitute or if I should
> wait for a 3.6 snapshot. My main requirement is a single file that
> users can download to do the installation, since I hate having a
> setup.exe and MSI file because it's confusing and seems unnecessary.
> The only component of Burn I've ever used before is setupbld, but I'm
> wondering - will the output of Burn be a single exe, or will it be like
> VS where you have to package lots of MSIs and an exe into a zip file
> for distribution?
> 
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