Ahh, someone has been digging deeper. Very cool. <smile/> 0. There's nothing secret about Burn. It's getting close to being very solid and documentation will become the focus. Questions here are always welcome.
1. UI - yes, Burn will handle all facets of the install process. I'm also still investigating exposing MSI UI in the middle of the chain based on feedback here. 2. Language Transforms - this isn't currently planned for the wixstdba right now. I was planning to finish the auto-switching of the BoostrapperApplication strings at install time (you can kinda' see the code started where the .wxl file is loaded). RTL should be supported as well (probalby doesn't work wll right now). Handling transforms would just be another thing to do. Not planned but that doesn't mean it can't get done in WiX v3.6... we'll see. I really wonder if language transforms are necessary if the UI is all displayed by Burn. <shrug/> Of course, you could implement your own BA and do whatever. 3. Multi-MSI Transactions - I found a few bugs in the Windows Installer using the multi-MSI transaction and it didn't interoperate well with EXE packages. Basically, it's really annoying feature that requires a new version of MSI (and that can often require a reboot) that I wished worked better. We may try to get it working within rollback boundaries in Burn again... but right now the Burn rollback logic is working okay (still some bugs around cancel). Burn supports MSI 2.0 and better. It might work on MSI 1.1 but I don't have any machines that have MSI 1.1 on them. Basically, I expect Burn to support Windows XP (may require SP2, hard to test without SP2 on WinXP these days) and better. -- virtually, Rob Mensching - http://RobMensching.com LLC On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Tobias S <tobias.s1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Just did a short coding using burn and saw the fantastic abilities and > the placeholders in the help where some additional nice functionality > will come. > > That made me a bit curious about WiX and raised some questions. Would > be fine if somebody could give me some details for a better > understanding of the concept of burn and what Burn is able to do (and > not to do). > > Hope these questions don't go into some details which should not > become public right now :-) > > >From other discussions I assume Burn hides the default MSI UIs and > creates its own UI instead. So will Burn represent a complete > "wrapper" for all scenarios like Install, repair, modify and remove ? > > In my current understanding the > WixStandardBootstrapperApplication.HyperlinkLicense + > WixStandardBootstrapperApplication.RtfLicense are the default Burn > UIs. As coming from InstallShield following requirements are > frequently in our applications: Have a "Select language" dialog and > afterwards start the MSI with the needed transform which is just for > modifying the UI language of the installer. > > For Burn this would mean to have some logic for to have a "Select > Language" dialog and afterwards start > WixStandardBootstrapperApplication.RtfLicense and > WixStandardBootstrapperApplication.HyperlinkLicense localized. Is > something like that planed or do we have to write a custom > bootstrapper application DLL for such a need ? Or will > WixStandandardBootstrapperApplication.Foundation represent a well > configurable Bootstrapper applicaiton which can be configured for > such requirements ? If so will RTL (Right to Left) be considered ? > > When installing several MSIs it seems Burn is doing an installation > for each package separate. So I assume Burn doesn't do Multiple > package transactions and therefore doesn't need Windows Installer 4.5. > So will Burn work on lower Windows Installer Versions ? > > > Thanks for your continuous great work on WiX and Burn! > Tobias > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! > Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better > price-free! > Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires > February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
