I think I've seen some suggest that CI shouldn't include deployment as there's also another term out there called Continous Deployment... different book :-) Some in the CI camp say the CI build must be really fast and light weight. Unit tests only, nothing to do with integration/deployment and it should be done in less then 10 minutes, the faster the better. I'd say that whatever we call this thing, when it comes to doing CI/CD for your installers, whatever servicing strategy you plan on doing in production you should do in dev/test to get max test coverage of your deployment solution. Prototype it out and see if the performance is acceptable or if you have pain that's not tolerable.
--- 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 From: Nick Porter <porter.nicho...@gmail.com> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 8:23 AM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Wix installers and Continuous Integration I have developed Wix installers in the past using the minor upgrade route but have recently changed to major upgrades to allow for easy double click upgrades. A couple reasons we wanted to do this was: 1) Preserve existing configuration files 2) Preserve login and recovery options for our Windows Services My question is for those that have moved to Continuous Integration. With that model in place is it best to do a complete uninstall then install as if it's a fresh without preserving any configuration settings or can the upgrade model work along side the Continuous Integration model? If using an upgrade model is still a good idea then is a Major Upgrade preferred to the Minor Upgrade? As of this time we are planning on using Go for our CI tool. Thanks for your help! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forrester Wave Report - Recovery time is now measured in hours and minutes not days. Key insights are discussed in the 2010 Forrester Wave Report as part of an in-depth evaluation of disaster recovery service providers. Forrester found the best-in-class provider in terms of services and vision. Read this report now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/ibm-webcastpromo _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forrester Wave Report - Recovery time is now measured in hours and minutes not days. Key insights are discussed in the 2010 Forrester Wave Report as part of an in-depth evaluation of disaster recovery service providers. Forrester found the best-in-class provider in terms of services and vision. Read this report now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/ibm-webcastpromo _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
