[wix-users] Upgrade Paths in Wix

[Edwin Castro]

I should mention that you should be able to implement this without any
custom actions.

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Edwin G. Castro

On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 9:05 PM, Edwin Castro <egcastr at gmail.com> wrote:

> One way to understand the <MajorUpgrade> tag is that it produces <Upgrade>
> with specific values that represent a "major upgrade". You can author your
> own <Upgrade> tags, in addition to <MajorUpgrade>, to add additional rows
> into the Upgrade table. You really need to understand how the Upgrade
> table, <Upgrade> tag, and <MajorUpgrade> tag work.
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/aa372379.aspx
> http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/xsd/wix/upgrade.html
> http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/xsd/wix/upgradeversion.html
> http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/xsd/wix/majorupgrade.html
>
> The key is that you want to specify the minimum and maximum versions for
> the allowed major upgrade, and *detect* the versions that you want to
> disallow. The Upgrade table is processed when the FindRelatedProducts
> standard action executes and its results are stored in properties specified
> in the Upgrade table rows. Armed with these properties you can author
> LaunchConditions to disallow upgrades when certain versions are installed.
> You could instead use the properties to display specific text if you have
> authored a UI.
>
> --
> Edwin G. Castro
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 8:45 PM, Ven H <venh.123 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks a lot Edwin. Do you mean I need to query the Upgrade Table or
>> something? If so, how to do this? Should it be through some custom action?
>> Please advise.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Venkatesh
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 9:08 AM, Edwin Castro <egcastr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Perhaps we're talking about different customers here... I'm guessing...
>>>
>>> The poor user that uses your customer's software will likely dislike
>>> being forced to run multiple upgrades to get to latest. It is simply a bad
>>> practice.
>>>
>>> Your customer probably shouldn't have given you that requirement if they
>>> value usability.
>>>
>>> As the setup developer you should know whether that intermediate upgrade
>>> is really required or not. At least from a technical perspective.
>>>
>>> In any case, the Upgrade table is what you need if you can't address the
>>> perceived need for this requirement.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Edwin G. Castro
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 7:24 PM, Ven H <venh.123 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am not forcing this on them. It is their requirement and they are
>>>> asking me to check the feasibility and the ways to achieve this.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Venkatesh
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 12:34 AM, Edwin Castro via wix-users <
>>>> wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I agree you shouldn't force this kind of behavior on your customers...
>>>>>
>>>>> If you still think you must, then you'll want to use the Upgrade table
>>>>> in
>>>>> version 2.0 to detect versions 1.1 or 1.2 and disallow upgrade in those
>>>>> cases. The MajorUpgrade tag will not do this kind of thing for you so
>>>>> you'll need to author Upgrade yourself.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Edwin G. Castro
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 10:42 AM, Hoover, Jacob via wix-users <
>>>>> wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> > It's a Major Upgrade, why on earth would you wish to force your
>>>>> customers
>>>>> > to do this?  Sounds like you might be trying to update some
>>>>> externally
>>>>> > managed file, which should be handled by the application and/or
>>>>> custom
>>>>> > actions.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > -----Original Message-----
>>>>> > From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On
>>>>> Behalf
>>>>> > Of Ven H via wix-users
>>>>> > Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2017 10:34 AM
>>>>> > To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
>>>>> > Cc: Ven H <venh.123 at gmail.com>
>>>>> > Subject: [wix-users] Upgrade Paths in Wix
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Is it possible to specify Upgrade Paths in Major Upgrade? For
>>>>> example,
>>>>> > let's say if a client is at version 1.3 or 1.4, they can upgrade to
>>>>> 2.0,
>>>>> > but if they are in 1.1 or 1.2, they must first upgrade to 1.3 or 1.4
>>>>> before
>>>>> > upgrading to 2.0? How can we achieve this?
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Regards,
>>>>> > Venkatesh
>>>>> >
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