[wix-users] How To add an feature after installation

[RonnyS]

Hi @ all
I now have an extra MSI created and added in my WixStdBA.
Now I can control via the cmd whether it should be installed.

But how can I install my second MSI later now?
If I start the installation again, then they will quickly ended as
recognized is that the main MSI is already installed.
Only when I start a repair installation then the second MSI is also
installed. But that also makes for a repair of the main MSI.


2015-10-07 0:32 GMT+02:00 RonnyS <ronnys.coding at gmail.com>:

> Many thanks for your response.
>
> 2015-10-07 0:27 GMT+02:00 Phill Hogland <phill.hogland at rimage.com>:
>
>> The approach I take (which I got from other's comments here(or rather in
>> the old wix-users) and by studying the Setup in the wixtoolset source code)
>> is to create separate MSI packages for applications or functional groups of
>> applications, and then chain them in a Burn bundle.  Burn goes through a
>> planning stage where you can control in a custom ba which packages you want
>> to install.  You can also do this with the WixStdBA and a baFunctions.dll
>> but it is much more limiting.  Generally nested installs within an MSI, if
>> that is what you are trying to do, are strongly discouraged, rather use a
>> Burn bootstrapper application to chain your setups.  Burn is great!
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On
>> Behalf Of RonnyS
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2015 4:54 PM
>> To: wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org
>> Subject: [wix-users] How To add an feature after installation
>>
>> I install a program within a large installation of other programs.
>> A certain feature of my installation is intended to be not immediately
>> installed.
>>
>> Later in the large installation, should the feature be installed.
>> How can I install a feature later?
>>
>> Am I on the right track, to control it via the feature conditions?
>> Or do I have to use an extra MSI in burn?
>>
>> Thanks Ronny
>>
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