Yes, CustomBA meaning custom bootstrapper. You would in fact be deploying solely side by side installs with the BA knowing about all previous side by side installs.
That being said, I would agree with John Coopers assessment of it not being a good architecture. However you asked if it's possible and to that I'd say yes. In the end, I don't think enough information was provided to give you a clear answer. If these two products are truly independent (similar to say VS2010 and VS2012), and you simply wanted an option of removing the 1.0 bundle if found when the 2.0 bundle was installed (two separate products, the newer with knowledge of the older), then this would be safer and easier. You'd lose the benefit of upgrades being able to leave 1.0 content in place for 2.0 to consume, and you'd need to write custom actions to import any previous user preferences across, but that should be a much more robust/serviceable solution than trying to manage multiple MSI's for the same product (one as SxS and one as in place). -----Original Message----- From: Pavan Konduru [mailto:pavan.kond...@accelrys.com] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 12:20 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and side by side with the same installer Hi Jacob, Thank you for your inputs. When you say Custom BA do you mean in the bootstrapper? The WIX upgrade functionality does the following am assuming automatically for us: --Uninstall the previous version(files and registry keys) --Use the upgrading property to run our custom actions during upgrade only. --Any other goodies you think I will be missing? --Pavan -----Original Message----- From: Hoover, Jacob [mailto:jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2014 2:27 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and side by side with the same installer Best I could think is to use Burn and make each install able to side by side install, and conditionally remove the old copy based on user input inside a custom BA.. You'd lose the major upgrade goodies of Windows Installer, but it should work. -----Original Message----- From: Pavan Konduru [mailto:pavan.kond...@accelrys.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2014 3:04 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. (wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net) Subject: [WiX-users] Upgrade and side by side with the same installer Hi All, Is it possible to create an installer that would do an upgrade or side-by-side based on the user input? Say we have 1.0 installed. When the user runs a version 2.0 of the same product, give him a choice to either upgrade the existing or install as a side by side. Is it a good architecture to even allow this? --Pavan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion & Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that actually works. Faster operations. Version large binaries. Built-in WAN optimization and the freedom to use Git, Perforce or both. Make the move to Perforce. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=122218951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion & Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that actually works. Faster operations. Version large binaries. Built-in WAN optimization and the freedom to use Git, Perforce or both. Make the move to Perforce. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=122218951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion & Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that actually works. Faster operations. Version large binaries. Built-in WAN optimization and the freedom to use Git, Perforce or both. Make the move to Perforce. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=122218951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion & Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that actually works. Faster operations. Version large binaries. Built-in WAN optimization and the freedom to use Git, Perforce or both. Make the move to Perforce. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=122218951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
