The flip side of this would be incremental patching. Release a RTM version and then all servicing from there would be handled as a patch. The down side is the patches being cached over time would bloat the local system, so you'd want to consider doing a major upgrade every so often to clean out all of the patches.
I'm in process of getting self-updating bundles in 3.9 and I have a pull request for the core changes in place. If accepted, I intend on doing another pull request for WixStdBA to be able to self-update. Note, I just completed the changes that were fleshed out but incomplete. My implementation relies on the Update element pointing to an Atom feed containing a list of possible updates for the application. It's left up to the BA to process each update and decide if the update is applicable or not. -----Original Message----- From: Phil Wilson [mailto:phildgwil...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 3:46 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Patching strategy If you create whole file patches then you might get that size issue, but patches can be smaller, the delta between the files. I don't know if Burn can do that, but the question is: how does the customer know when to run it? It's not too difficult for the app to call a company web service passing the ProductCodes and ProductVersions of what's installed and having it tell you if there are updates to download, but it does take that infrastructure work. Phil Wilson On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 9:03 AM, KG <kelly.gr...@toltech.net> wrote: > This sounds like a good way to start at least. My one concern is what > happens when the accumulated patches start to get large enough to make > size a concern? Lets say the original data is 2GB, and every month we > need to release a patch that changes 5% of it. After 5 months we're > up to a 500MB accumulated patch. > > Would it be possible to release a small burn bootstrapper that detects > which patches are installed and only downloads the ones that the user > doesn't already have? > > Thanks! > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Patching > -strategy-tp7591585p7591600.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list > archive at Nabble.com. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your > business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how > application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you > get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your > 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.c > lktrk _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
