[wix-users] VC Runtime: Merge Module vs Original installer

[Farrukh Waheed]

I also find it useful to keep installer entities separate i.e VC Runtimes
coming through their own installers and our msi should is installed
separately. Later we can manage these independently, like (May be) when we
need to update/upgrade VC Runtimes, we don't need to touch our own
installation and likewise it would be good for our installed product...

I've also observed this in VS and MS Office installers. There are lots of
msi files now....

On 30 August 2017 at 15:15, David Watson <dwatson at sdl.com> wrote:

> Merge modules become part of your msi so you own the updating of them.
>
> So ideally Third party prerequisites should be taken if available and
> added to your bootstrapper.
>
> This is so that if critical security fixes are released by the vendor your
> end users are not waiting for you to make a release/patch they can just
> take the latest redist installer.
>
>
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> > The .exe's a bundle and can install ucrt. A merge module can't.
>
> OK thanks, sigh.  I'll not even ask what's so special about that file,
> I've learnt not to :-)
>
> Of course it doesn't install ucrtbased.dll either which makes a mockery of
> distributing debug-able executables, but I can live with that.
>
> Thanks again
>
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