On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 13:49 -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: > I doubt anyone knows the complete set of those functions > that actually get used by real-world installers. > > I think your choice is either a) keep plugging along on msi > automation on the theory that it's good for msi in general > and might help a few as yet unknown apps, or b) put this > on the back burner and go work on something known to > be blocking some app you care about. > - Dan
Thanks Dan. One more question: Will the COMification of msi somehow require OLE automation, as Mike's email excerpt seems to suggest (this would be another reason then to continue implementing it)? If so, how? > It will require the OLE interfaces (Session/Installer) to be working > before the custom actions can run out of process. (from Mike's email) Thanks Misha p.s. meanwhile, I hope to submit a few shlexec.c patches in the next couple of days/week as some of the DDE stuff does not seem to work as native and this leads to a very minor Vector NTI problem
