[wix-users] Automating MSI building

Walter Dexter wfdexter at gmail.com
Sat Feb 11 14:52:27 PST 2017


Is there anything confidential in there? 

Are the files small enough you could include them all and pick at install?

Or put the config file in a cab that you deliver with the MSI, and have a single stock MSI?

Or even pull the config down from a server at install?

> On Feb 11, 2017, at 1:18 PM, Brett Cunningham <brettcu at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Each customer needs a different conf.ini file and it's becoming
> unmanageable to keep it locally. We are looking to streamline the building
> process.
> 
> Our current thoughts: create an web app API that will take input for
> conf.ini, then call WiX tools (candle, light) and return the MSI package.
> Our preference is to build web apps on Linux. We've tried to deploy django
> apps on Windows before: it's a huge pain and unsupported.
> 
> Has anyone built a WiX environment on Linux? Any other thoughts on how to
> do this, architecturally?
> 
> v/r,
> 
> Brett
> 
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