[wix-users] Uninstall of msi should trigger uninstall of bootstrapper

[Edwin Castro]

I don't know what "When the user uninstalls that software, it automatically
triggers the uninstall of its plugins (internally via Windows Installer
Service i.e. msi)" means but an MSI cannot uninstall another MSI.

Are you saying that a bootstrapper for the main software is uninstalling
the main software's msi and also uninstalling the msi for each plugin? If
so, how does the main software bootstrapper know which plugin msi to
uninstall? Perhaps that should be changed so that it instead uninstalls
your bootstrapper.

--
Edwin G. Castro


On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 8:34 AM Farrukh Waheed via wix-users <
wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm delivering a plugin (In chained msi in our custom bootrapper) for a
> software. When the user uninstalls that software, it automatically triggers
> the uninstall of its plugins (internally via Windows Installer Service i.e.
> msi). But that leaves our Bootstrapper there in Control Panel. Now if
> someone tries to uninstall it, bootstrapper would be asking to Install
> itself (again) which would be failed as the parent software which will host
> the plugin is not there.
> Is there any event, which could trigger the uninstall of Bootstrapper
> whenever the chained msi is triggered to uninstall?
>
> Thanks a bunch.
> Farrukh
>
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