Status of MSI

[Michael Stefaniuc]

Hi Mike,

how much of msi.dll do you think is now implemented?
For http://www.winehq.org/site/status_dlls

bye
	michael

On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 01:15:16PM -0500, Mike McCormack wrote:
> I've completed the merge of the work Aric and I have done to date on 
> MSI.  Some programs that use and do not package the MSI installer may 
> start to work.  We still have no implementation of msiexec.exe, so there 
> is still no method to install .msi files directly, however not all MSI 
> based installs require msiexec.exe.  (It's fairly easy to implement if 
> anybody wishes to volunteer...)
> 
> Consider adding "msi" = "native, builtin" to your Wine configuration 
> files, and not installing the MSI redistributables straight away when 
> you encounter an installer that uses msi.dll :)  Let us know what bugs 
> that turns up.

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