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Optional upgrade or side-by-side installation #4118

Open wixbot opened 11 years ago

wixbot commented 11 years ago

Currently the choice whether to the an upgrade or a new/separate/side-by-side installation is chosen automatically by MSI according to the hardocded product GUIDs. That's not quite the happiest solution, could you please provide the possibility for WiX/MSI to detect an existing installation but then enable the user to choose whether to upgrade it or to install the new version in a different folder...

Originally opened by psiha

wixbot commented 11 years ago

This could be an interesting feature but would be non-trivial to implement for both MSIs and bundles.

Originally posted by barnson Area set to compiler Release changed from v3.8 to v3.x

wixbot commented 11 years ago

I thought so...but this is a rather "standard procedure" for other installer engines (i.e. it is IMHO a rather serious omission on the side of MSI developers not to provide this out-of-the-box)...

Originally posted by psiha