>Lutz,
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>>Orca is more or less a way to look into the msi. Nothing you can't do with VFP too. Anyway its clumsy.
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>Thanks for the feedback and the like to superorca. Since our product is now nearly registry-neutral, i may not need it. But that may help understand what those dammed installers do. I lost contact with installers by the end of the 90s and have forgotten what they really do and the way they work. Last time I used them, Windows users were on 95 and 2X version.... Possibly a way to get a better understanding on what is currently required to have a top notch deployment experience.
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>>Forget about it. If you really like to deal with msi based installers, buy Installshield, now Revenera / Flexera.
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>I'll give it a try. The money is an issue. But the time even more so! The fact that it changes name is sometime associated with some improvements. Sometime just marketing. I'll pay the site a visit anyway.
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>Daniel

MSI is a complex database.
Installshield is sold the 3th time or so. I have skipped 15years running an old version on a XP on a VM (since at this time update as online only and they never handed me a missing version for reinstall. Comp broke and Macrovision was an oddness. Now there are downloadable updates)
If you don not need multi-lang support and scripiting, Express is not that bad - and even the one shipped with VFP should still do. At least it is enough for a try.