What conflicts are you worried about exactly? One or more specific user scenarios that expose the issue you think there is in Burn would probably help a lot.
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 3:58 AM, Tomas Köhn <tomas.k...@cellavision.se>wrote: > I agree, burn has a lot of cool features. > > Our problem is that administrators expects an .msi for easy remote > deployment, while other, smaller customers want to have an setup.exe with > checks dependency (.NET framework, OS etc.). > > If we at first installs with setup.exe, we might later have to install > .msi without conflicts and vice versa. If I understand correctly this is > not possible with burn, which is a shame because it has everything we need > and does it very well. What is a good alternative for this? dotNetInstaller? > > Regards > Tomas > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] > Sent: den 24 juli 2013 06:44 > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] [wix-users] Impact of installed burn? > > The cool thing is that if you always use Bundles to install your MSI > packages, shared MSI packages will be correctly reference counted and only > removed when the last Bundle that needs it is removed. Totally avoids all > the bad behaviors. > > > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Wesley Manning <wmann...@dynagen.ca > >wrote: > > > If the bundle exe is uninstalled it would uninstall the msi. So you > > can install the standalone msi again after. If you try to install msi > > after installing bundle exe the msi will not install as the bundle > > already installed it. > > If you install MSI and then install bundle exe then you'll see two > > entries in ARP. There are other effects too such as if you install a > > newer version of the MSI with the bundle exe already installed it will > upgrade the MSI. > > > > Not sure if this will present a problem other than aesthetics. Should > > really use a MSI alone or burn alone and not mix the two. > > > > Wes > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Tomas Köhn [mailto:tomas.k...@cellavision.se] > > Sent: July-23-13 6:09 AM > > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] [wix-users] Impact of installed burn? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Will this impact future installs of .msi files which has been part of > > bundle before (but has been uninstalled)? > > > > / Tomas > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Wesley Manning [mailto:wmann...@dynagen.ca] > > Sent: den 22 juli 2013 14:40 > > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] [wix-users] Impact of installed burn? > > > > Users will have no way to uninstall burn package AFAIK. See > > http://www.joyofsetup.com/2013/07/05/burn-zero-one-or-n/ . > > > > Wes > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Tomas Köhn [mailto:tomas.k...@cellavision.se] > > Sent: July-22-13 8:20 AM > > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: [WiX-users] [wix-users] Impact of installed burn? > > > > We need to support installation from both .exe and .msi (for remote > > program distribution). As I understand, burn can't be used without > > installing into ARP. We want the program installation to be the same > > from both .exe and .msi. > > > > If I set DisableModify="yes" DisableRemove="yes", the bundle (burn) > > application will not be visible in Program & Feature. What will be > > stored in ARP and how will this impact the installed .msi? > > > > Regards > > Tomas > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -------- See everything from the browser to the database with > > AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from > > AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. > > Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.c > > lktrk _______________________________________________ > > WiX-users mailing list > > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -------- See everything from the browser to the database with > > AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from > > AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. > > Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.c > > lktrk _______________________________________________ > > WiX-users mailing list > > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -------- See everything from the browser to the database with > > AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from > > AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. > > Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.c > > lktrk _______________________________________________ > > WiX-users mailing list > > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -------- See everything from the browser to the database with > > AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from > > AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. > > Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.c > > lktrk _______________________________________________ > > WiX-users mailing list > > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get > end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate > bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. > Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics > Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics > Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. > Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. 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