MSI (MS Installer)

[Mike Hearn]

Indeed, and quite a few apps are starting to ship only with MSIs. As XP 
replaces 98, that is only going to become a bigger problem.

For now, having a script which downloads and installs the MSI system 
from microsoft.com should suffice. It'd have to fake user agent strings, 
but that's no big deal. MS won't pull that download for quite some time, 
at least until the user base of 98 is negligable, so it's not an 
immediately pressing problem.

David Fraser wrote:

> Uwe Bonnes wrote:
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>> It's not wine that needs msiexec, it's some application with it's
>> installer. So this application has to care for msiexec.
>>
>> If things change and msiexec get's part of the ms core distribution, 
>> we can
>> reconsider...
>>
>> Bye
>>  
>>
> Actually it is included with Windows 2000, XP and Me etc:
> Windows® Installer is an installation and configuration service that 
> reduces the total cost of ownership. The installer ships with 
> Microsoft® Windows® .NET Server 2003 family, Windows® XP, Windows® 
> 2000, and Windows® Millennium Edition (Windows® Me). The installer is 
> also provided as a service pack to Microsoft® Windows NT® version 
> 4.0., Windows® 98, and Windows® 95.  (from 
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/msi/setup/windows_installer_start_page.asp) 
>
> Although it depends what you call the ms core distribution I guess...
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> David
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