Re: [WiX-users] Re: The finishing touch - intuitive upgrades

[Nicholas M. <nic...@gm...>]

OK, I posted a feature request, which I think hits what everyone was
saying. Please check it out and see if there is anything you want to
add to it:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D1359020&group_=
id=3D105970&atid=3D642717

On 11/17/05, li...@en... <li...@en...> wrote:
>  > We have been using dotNetInstaller
>  > (http://www.devage.com/dotNetInstaller/dotNetInstaller.html) and
> based on my
>  > experience with ithave some ideas. (Actually, trying to do a
> bootstapper to
>  > contribute has been wandering around the edges of my mind, but a full
> time
>  > job and side clients prevent me from working on this right now.)
>  >
>  > * dotNetInstaller lets my user choose to skip steps (i.e. not install =
a
>  > prerequisite) and try to install something dependent on an earlier ste=
p.
>  > This seems to be a bad idea.
>  >
>  > -Tony
>
>  > Message: 5
>  > Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 15:26:14 -0600
>  > From: Joshua Crank <jos...@gm...>
>  > To: "Ton...@ad..." <Ton...@ad...>
>  > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Re: The finishing touch - intuitive upgrades
>  > Cc: ro...@us..., wix...@li...
>  >
>  > I concur with Tony's findings on dotNetInstaller... I actually
>  > abandoned dni beause of that last issue and wound up doing pretty
>  > significant tweaks to the bootstrapper that microsoft gives as an
>  > example. An additional thing that would be really useful for me is the
>  > ability to kick off a program on bootstrapper end (as outside of msi
>  > install) because I have a utility I wrote that scans the msi logs and
>  > logs from other utilities used by the install for errors and generates
>  > a report. Obviously doing this as a custom action in the msi would be
>  > problematic.
>  >
>  > Joshua Crank
>
> I'm just working with dotNetInstaller at the moment. If you set the
> "Advanced Caption" to an empty string, then the user cannot choose to
> skip prerequisites.
>
> dotNetInstaller is certainly not perfect, but I haven't yet found
> anything that gets anywhere near it in terms of functionality. The
> Microsoft Component Installer got thrown out immediately I ran it on my
> machine. As all the prerequisites were present, I was informed that the
> installation was complete. Very confusing for a customer, as then our
> installer would be run.
>
> Richard
>
>
>
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