[wix-users] MSI Version advice

[Alex Tuppen]

Hi,

I am hoping that I could get some advice on the best way to handle an
installer requirement that I have been given. Currently I have a bundle
which contains an MSI for a Microsoft product and a few MSIs which just
wrap custom actions to configure the system in specific ways (the
application itself is cloud based).

The problem is that the Microsoft application needs to be installed and be
a minimum version, any version above the minimum version is fine and no
action is required. Unfortunately if I run my bundle with a lower version
of the application than is installed the MSI throws an error and terminates
the install. This is a problem because we do not want to have to update the
bundle every time Microsoft updates their software (and because my boss
wants it to not need updating).

I saw that the package was marked as obsolete in the logs so I tried having
a look but couldn't find anyway for the custom bootstrapper to know this as
well. If anyone has any ideas on how to resolve this I'd be very grateful.

Kind regards,

Alex