Another option is to help work in the WiX toolset to make Burn behave correctly. <smile/> Granted might take a little more work but we would love for Burn to work perfectly so no hacks are necessary.
On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Brian C <briancoving...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I agree. But, without a "built in" way of doing this, and with management > expecting what previously worked with Wise to work with Wix, it iwa the > best I could come up with. > > > ________________________________ > From: Rob Mensching <r...@robmensching.com> > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. < > wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Sent: Saturday, April 6, 2013 10:11 AM > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Bundle Version and patching > > That's a pretty scary hack to me. I could see us doing things in the future > that totally get confused doing that. It seems like this would be a better > feature request for the engine to handle. The behavior you are seeing right > now is completely expected but I can totally see why it'd be nice if patch > bundles could up the related bundle version. > > > On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Brian_Covington <briancoving...@yahoo.com > >wrote: > > > I had the same problem. What I did to solve it is in the product msi, I > > created a custom action that runs on both install and uninstall to find > the > > bundle entry in Uninstall and update the DisplayVersion. When > installing, > > I > > create an OldDisplayVersion which has the version number for what is > about > > to be overwritten and then on uninstall, I revert back to this version > > number. Works like a charm. > > > > > > > > -- > > View this message in context: > > > http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Bundle-Version-and-patching-tp7579655p7584934.html > > Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Minimize network downtime and maximize team effectiveness. > > Reduce network management and security costs.Learn how to hire > > the most talented Cisco Certified professionals. Visit the > > Employer Resources Portal > > http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/employer_resources/index.html > > _______________________________________________ > > WiX-users mailing list > > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Minimize network downtime and maximize team effectiveness. > Reduce network management and security costs.Learn how to hire > the most talented Cisco Certified professionals. Visit the > Employer Resources Portal > http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/employer_resources/index.html > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Minimize network downtime and maximize team effectiveness. > Reduce network management and security costs.Learn how to hire > the most talented Cisco Certified professionals. Visit the > Employer Resources Portal > http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/employer_resources/index.html > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Minimize network downtime and maximize team effectiveness. Reduce network management and security costs.Learn how to hire the most talented Cisco Certified professionals. Visit the Employer Resources Portal http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/employer_resources/index.html _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
