[wix-devs] 3746/4808 - Configuring Bundle upgrades

[Bob Arnson]

We shouldn't encourage AllowDowngrades given how poorly MSI supports it. (Maybe, if you want to support a related-bundle mode that does the previous-bundle-uninstall first.) AllowSameVersionUpgrades should just be the new way things work. I don't think there's a lot of benefit to the current behavior or that people would miss it.

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Subject: Re: [wix-devs] 3746/4808 - Configuring Bundle upgrades

I don't have a preference for what the defaults are.

What I'm interested in is allowing Bundles to declaratively specify "AllowDowngrades" and "AllowSameVersionUpgrades" as yes/no. Version ranges probably aren't required for this, so I'd be fine with doing it differently.

On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 1:26 AM Rob Mensching <rob at firegiant.com> wrote:

> We could if the additional complexity was worth it. However, AFAICT, 
> the lack of version ranges hasn't been a real problem.
>
> What was called out as the problem was the "AllowSameVersionUpgrades" 
> both in Bundles and MSIs. I think I've come around (and these issues 
> are the result of that) to the fact that same version upgrades is 
> better than the behavior you get without allowing same version 
> upgrades (duplicated packages).
>
> So the default should change for both MSI and Bundles.
>
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>
> Looking at https://github.com/wixtoolset/issues/issues/3746 and 
> https://github.com/wixtoolset/issues/issues/4808, Burn seems to have 
> been designed so that all Bundles have the equivalent of <MajorUpgrade 
> AllowDowngrades="no" AllowSameVersionUpgrades="no /> without the 
> ability to change it. All RelatedBundles with type Upgrade work the same way.
>
> Is there a reason we shouldn't enhance Burn to support configurable 
> version ranges for RelatedBundles? That seems like the way to go.
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