Re: MSI based wrapper for other installs?

Jason,

I've looked at MSI and it requires .NET on the system.
This requirement means we cannot support it.

What would be good is a delphi component that can create MSI install
shields.
The component would obviously have to be written in Delphi 2007

I reckon your the man for the job. I was ( I think ) your first
international customer back in
I think it was 1995 or 1996.

The future of Install shields unfortunately seems to be forcing us in this
direction,
I am being dragged along kicking and screaming by this.

Can the MSI install shields determine is .NET is present and if not install
the .NET framework?

Kind Regards,

Robert Gilland.


"Jason Swager" <jswager@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Bob wrote:
I heard there was a good installation component called TSetup.
However the guy who wrote it got lazy and didn't update it past Delphi 3
;->

There was a product called TSetup. And it didn't get past Delphi 3. A
(very) small part of going defunct was laziness. A bigger part was those
three kids that popped out into my wife's and mine life (yeah, yeah -
excuses, excuses). Another substantial part was the MSI requirement.
Many of the installs that I was maintaining were required to shift to MSI
by the IT departments that deployed the apps. Consequently, my little
Delphi built installers went by-by.

MSI is still evolving and the latest evolution seems to be indicative of
where things are going. MSI seems exceptionally good (we could argue
this, I suppose) and putting files onto a system and making registry
changes and stuff like that. But boot-strapping, installing pre-reqs,
chaining multiple installs, and providing a super UI all seem to be less
about MSI. So maybe there is a good place for Delphi: building nice
standalone EXEs that works as boot-strappers/chainers and provide an
above-average GUI to a MSI installation.

Jason


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