Re: Recommendations for easy software installers?

> Did you not find the scripting? My understanding is that the scripting
> engine builds the MSI "live", thus allowing full power. (I may be wrong
> though).

The scripting allows you to fine-tune how your "zip" will be constructed on
your development machine, but it does not allow any control of what happens
once on the target machine (apart from the obvious replace file if older
type of options).

Checking if a file is installed and then ineracting with the user is not
possible. Also, any installation that has non-standard installation folders
requirements is almost impossible to create. Again this seems to be a
limitation of the MSI. Too bad, I really liked the product and the support
was great.

Olivier


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