[wix-users] Automating MSI building

[Walter Dexter]

I'm not fully understanding tbh. But having a unique MSI autogenerated for each customer sounds like trouble.

> On Feb 11, 2017, at 5:44 PM, Brett Cunningham <brettcu at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the reply!
> 
> Customers deploy their own server. This is one of the values that must be
> in the conf.ini file. Without knowing this value, the endpoint client does
> not know what server to pull from.
> 
> This is why we think that the customer's server could query an API and pass
> along the right info.
> 
> Does this make sense, or is there something else that makes more sense?
> 
>> On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 5:52 PM, Walter Dexter <wfdexter at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 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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