My preference is for cumulative patches. There's trade off between size and complexity.
Cumulative patches - are less confusing for the user. There is only ever 1 patch to apply - the latest. Support is also easier for this reason. - are quicker and easier to apply once there are more than a few versions as there is only ever one needed to bring you to the latest version. - grow in size with each version. - once you set the optimised flag to no, it has to stay that way until the next baseline. This may not matter to you. There will be other things I've missed out. -----Original Message----- From: Dino [mailto:dino.din...@gmail.com] Sent: 05 October 2011 17:42 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Incremental vs. cumulative patches (.msp) Hello I am new to the world of msi and started learning about patching. I learned that you can have incremental as well as cumulative patches. For example, I can have a patch 1.2 which will update 1.0 or 1.1 to 1.2. This will be cumulative, but if I have incremental patches, they will be 1.0 to 1.1 andthen another patch for 1.1 to 1.2. Are there any benefits or advantages in using one or the other? Which one is quicker and which one has more risks? Thanks ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- - All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users SDL PLC confidential, all rights reserved. If you are not the intended recipient of this mail SDL requests and requires that you delete it without acting upon or copying any of its contents, and we further request that you advise us. SDL PLC is a public limited company registered in England and Wales. Registered number: 02675207. Registered address: Globe House, Clivemont Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire SL6 7DY, UK. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy2 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
