The BA does the look up, there is nothing built into the engine (as of yet) since there are so many ways to do it. <smile/>
The question is do you want people that are installing an old setup.exe to know that there is a newer one available? That's what the Bundle Update does. On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Wheeler, Blaine (DSHS/DCS) < bwhee...@dshs.wa.gov> wrote: > So I did you get the Wix3.6 bundle to know 3.7 exists and to fetch and > execute it? > Is it going to be code in the BA? A property I can detect? > > It seems like it will work to always execute a setup.exe from the same URL > and just keep replacing it with an updated version that gets the latest > stuff. I wonder what pitfall I'm not spotting? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] > Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 8:40 AM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Using Update Element of the Bundle? > > In WiX v3.7 (and maybe all of WiX v3.7+) the Update/@Location really is > just information provided to the BootstrapperApplication. Basically if you > have an update location, the engine will say, "Hey, BA, now would be a good > time to use this string and figure out if there is an update." Technically > speaking, you don't even need to use update location to look updates (WiX > v3.6 did updates without the feature existing) but now you get a pretty > good hint when to go do the search. > > After that, I created the "application syndication" idea a long time ago, > using ATOM/RSS to track updates. It was trendy back then and I'm trying to > decide how much to push it going forward. I have a small spec kicking > around here somewhere for the implementation that is in the WiX toolset and > there is helper code in src\dutil\apup.cpp. I'm now wondering if the > web-world has moved far enough to JSON if I should pull the important > information into there... however, IE renders ATOM really nicely, ala: > http://wixtoolset.org/releases/feed/v3.8 > > > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Wheeler, Blaine (DSHS/DCS) < > bwhee...@dshs.wa.gov> wrote: > > > I want to create a self updating setup.exe with Burn. I hope that using > > the <Update> element of the Bundle with Wix 3.7 will work. The Help says > > this piece wasn't working yet but it looks like you use it for Wix > updates. > > True? > > > > > > Is there a reason you use a feed or was it just convenience? > > > > My plan: > > Set up a folder and file tree off a web server. From the Wix 3.7 source > it > > looks like the UpdateURL attribute of the Bundle element in the refers to > > the root URL where all subsequent updates of this version of product > will > > be. For example: http://ourhouse/releases/myAppName. Or Is <Update > > Location='xxxx' /> the critical element? Or are both necessary? > > > > For each update we would add a folder under MyAppName with a unique ID > > such as the setup.exe version number (1.0.0.0, 1.0.0.1 etc) > > > > If we have 4 packages per setup.exe would each sub folder have to all of > > the packages referenced by the bundle? > > > > I'm open to other ideas and I'd be happy to contribute code back or to > the > > Help if I am on a useful track? > > > > > > Blaine Wheeler > > Department of Social and Health Services > > Project Coordinator > > SEMS Operations > > 360.664.5416 > > blaine.whee...@dshs.wa.gov > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar > > _______________________________________________ > > WiX-users mailing list > > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
