Thanks for the quick response, but I'm a little confused. Burn has a ton of
really useful features (flexible and easy to use pre-installation checks,
downloading or embedding files, etc.) for handling prerequisites and the
documentation suggests this is one of the main uses for bundles :
"A bundle is a collection of installation packages that are chained together in
a single user experience. Bundles are often used to install prerequisites, such
as the .NET Framework or C++ Run Time, before an application's .MSI file.
Bundles also allow very large applications or suites of applications to be
broken into smaller, logical installation packages while still presenting a
single product to the end-user."
How would you recommend using bundles for pre-requisites and an application
with a single .MSI file? Would the bundle register itself or would it register
the main application's .MSI file?
It seems very odd for the bundle to be registered since it doesn't have any
components itself. For example, I can uninstall all the packages contained in
the bundle manually and then re-run the bundled setup and it prompts to repair
or uninstall.
I must be missing something here.
Thanks again,
Dave
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:17:38 -0700
From: Rob Mensching <r...@robmensching.com>
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Using a Bundle for Prerequisites
To: "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset."
<wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
As you've found, Burn is not intended to be used this way. The old
setupexe/setupbld in WiX v3.5 basically does that. I'm sure there are other
things that do this. Not a lot too it.
Burn solves the problem of creating a unified installation experience across
many installation packages.
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:24 PM, David Mannion <dmann...@transcepta.com>wrote:
> I'm trying to use the Wix Standard Bootstrapper Application to install
> two system prerequisites before my main application installation,
> which is already compiled into an Setup.exe. How can I prevent the
> bundle from being registered as a separate product. I am using the
> DisableModify and DisableRemove attributes, but this only hides it from
> Add/Remove programs.
> Can this be done with by writing a custom Bootstrapper Application?
>
> What I'm really looking for is a way to create a boostrapper that
> checks if the prerequisiites exist, installs any that are missing, and
> then launches my setup.exe and gets out of the way. Can this be done with
> Burn?
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