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

[Farrukh Waheed]

Hi Edwin,
That's a third-party software. It has a defined and documented plugin
structure including plugin's deployment. We have to add a defined custom
action which calls its PluginManager's commands to install the plugin and
make it available inside its IDE. This PluginManger also keeps track of
plugin's msi installation.
My guess is that, when Uninstall of this software is triggered, it might be
its own custom bootstrapper which uninstalls its plugins first using same
PluginManager, then its own msi.


On Sat, 15 Sep 2018 at 03:01, Edwin Castro <egcastr at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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