I know 3.6 is still under development, but documentation on Burn is few and far between. I've long wondered if wouldn't be nice to have a dumping spot to put some predefined templates. Ex: There are a lot of common prerequisites (.Net frameworks, Visual C++ runtimes, SQL Server CE, etc) that a lot of applications require. For Visual Studio, there are predefined templates for their bootstrapper. While it is possible for everyone to translate these templates to suite their needs, I think it would be helpful to have a standard translation for each.
In Wix, for an installer there is a sequence table that can be used to invoke custom logic at various points in time. There is also the concept of a CustomAction which allows you to write and execute custom code. Does burn have any similar abstraction? (I'm betting this will point me to a custom UX, but I am not certain if logic like FindRelatedProduct should exist in a UX or within the base engine.) Another issue I am running into is a documented feature request http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3300401&group_id=105970&; atid=642717. In the case of some installers, we only want to install prerequisites if a product of version X or higher is not installed. Is it purely a timing thing as to why a feature like this (at least scoped to burn) is not in existence? For burn, I've hacked in a prototype into the engine's search.cpp, but due to the lack of documentation I haven't gotten a clear understanding on what all else needs to be modified to get the burn compiler to accept a new element and to properly embed the XML into the burn output. Finally, has anyone found any good resources for documentation on Burn and the changes happening in Wix 3.6? Thanks, Jacob ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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-d2d-oct _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
