Does Product A and Product B install to the same directory or different directories?
In the context of your question, merge modules are merely collections of components that get merged into your installer. The merge module no longer exists once merged. Their components behave just like any other components you authored directly into the installer. Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me ----- Original Message ---- From: Tobias Erichsen <t.erich...@gmx.de> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Fri, November 12, 2010 5:55:28 AM Subject: [WiX-users] Usage of Merge Module for multiple projects (updates etc.) Hi everyone, I have put a device-driver installation into a merge module to be used in several MSI-installers for multiple applications using that driver. The driver is always backwards-compatible (as is the installation), but a newer application might be depending on the feature of the newer driver version. I have found lots of information about updates (major, minor...) concerning MSI, but not a lot concerning how the update will behave with the merge-modules. For example: I have an MSI for Product "A" containing the merge-module of my driver with version "1.0.0" I have a second MSI for Product "B" containing the merge-module of my driver with a newer version "1.1.3" When someone is now installing Product "A" and he has already installed Product "B" which contains a newer version of my merge-module with the newer driver - will the newer driver be overwritten by the older version? How can I prevent this? Best regards, Tobias ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Centralized Desktop Delivery: Dell and VMware Reference Architecture Simplifying enterprise desktop deployment and management using Dell EqualLogic storage and VMware View: A highly scalable, end-to-end client virtualization framework. Read more! http://p.sf.net/sfu/dell-eql-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Centralized Desktop Delivery: Dell and VMware Reference Architecture Simplifying enterprise desktop deployment and management using Dell EqualLogic storage and VMware View: A highly scalable, end-to-end client virtualization framework. Read more! http://p.sf.net/sfu/dell-eql-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
