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- Scott and Rod may meet up to discuss this in March when they are co-located
- Less of a concern for Java software because those products are more self-contained
- Scott and Rod have been emailing back and forth about the use of WiX installers and the depths of how it operates
- There are various ways in which WiX can operate when upgrading an install - some methods aren't great and will require a modest amount of work
- Moonshot folks have asked Scott if we can generate merge-module installer
- Merge modules do allow for cleaner bug fixes of dependent libraries but creating them is an effort
- One thing to be investigated is whether MS MSI is going to be dumped?
- AI Rod will ask about this when at MS next month
- AI Rod will think about risk reduction in case installer doesn't work as expected
- Rod will probably begin building a test installer either early Feb or early March
- AI Rod will make some sensible estimates on how long the test installer will take
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