On 19-Jul-11 11:10, Mark Modrall wrote: > 1) Looking at the installer log, it's unpacking into a directory other than > the INSTALLDIR; throughout I've been a little confused going to 3.5 about the > relation of INSTALLDIR and TARGETDIR; did TARGETDIR supplant/replace > INSTALLDIR? As noted before, I used to have my root<Directory > Id="INSTALLDIR"> and 3.5 said it had to be TARGETDIR; was I to take from > that it should be TARGETDIR throughout?
WiX v2 and v3 have the same requirements about TARGETDIR, because that's what MSI requires. INSTALLDIR is just a convention. > 2) I have a custom action in my installer, and that needs to look at/tweak > registry settings. Custom actions should be avoided for things like registry that MSI already handles. What do you need to do that you can't do in MSI? -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Magic Quadrant for Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention Research study explores the data loss prevention market. Includes in-depth analysis on the changes within the DLP market, and the criteria used to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of these DLP solutions. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51385063/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
