Hi, I have an issue in building WIX MSI. The scenario is explained below.
I have created an WIX MSI that has huge number of components and building this MSI takes lot of time. Now in order to make small change in any binary I do not want to re-build the whole MSI. Again I can create MSPs to take care of minor change but it involves creating base MSI and then diff with old version of MSI. This is again very time consuming process and hence I want to avoid this. Solutions Tried: Tried creating secondary MSI and invoking it in asyncNoWait mode using custom action. This approach works ok. But again I need to maintain multiple secondary MSIs to provide patch kind of thing. This has issues that I can not run these secondary MSIs in sync or asyncWait mode as nested installation is not supported. So again running into issues. I can run them in asyncNoWait mode and that too in the background, but in that case my main installation completes and secondary MSIs keep installing in background, that I really don't need. I know that we can create some bootstraper kind of thing to trigger base MSIs and secondary MSIs in sequence. Can somebody suggest me of some good approach to get out of this issue and provide patching in quicker way. Note: I am using Windows installer 4.5 and WIX version 3.5. Thank you. AK. DISCLAIMER ========== This e-mail may contain privileged and confidential information which is the property of Persistent Systems Ltd. It is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, you are not authorized to read, retain, copy, print, distribute or use this message. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender and delete all copies of this message. Persistent Systems Ltd. does not accept any liability for virus infected mails. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Protect Your Site and Customers from Malware Attacks Learn about various malware tactics and how to avoid them. Understand malware threats, the impact they can have on your business, and how you can protect your company and customers by using code signing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
