Nick I would recommend all Major Upgrade. I started with Minor and then introduced Major upgrade in our products, and currently use a mix of them - which was a mistake.
Complete uninstall verses upgrade - it all depends on how you are deploying in production. Whatever you are doing there is what you need to mimic in your testing cycle, in my opinion. Because our product life cycle with customers is initial install and then upgrades that do as much as possible (same as your reasons) we have invested quite a bit of time in making the internal test deployment follow this, and it pays off. Michael -----Original Message----- From: Nick Porter [mailto:porter.nicho...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, 12 April 2011 11:24 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [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
