Chapter 7: Organizing Your Installation Into Releases; About Releases - Symantec WINDOWS INSTALLER EDITOR 8.0 Reference

Chapter 7
Organizing Your Installation Into Releases

About Releases

Windows Installer Editor Reference
This chapter includes the following topics:
About Releases on page 184
Customizing a Release
Setting Build Options for a Release
Adding Prerequisites to a Release
Creating Web-Based Installations With WebDeploy
Setting Up Media for Distribution
Note
You can only create releases in a project file (.WSI). In any other file, the pages in the
Release Definition page group are fully or partially unavailable. An exception is the
Languages page.
See About the Languages Page
You can create an installation that generates different installations for different releases
of your application. You do this by creating and customizing releases within the
installation. You can create releases that install different features, have different
properties, have different output formats, and support different platforms.
The Releases page lets you define multiple releases for an installation, edit releases, and
delete releases you have created. If you haven't created additional releases for the
installation, the Releases page lists only one release: Default.
Example 1:
You want to have a standard and an evaluation edition for your application, and you
want to release both editions on CD and as Internet downloads. To accomplish this,
create four releases:
Standard edition on CD-ROM
Standard edition for the Internet
Evaluation edition on CD-ROM
Evaluation edition for the Internet
Example 2:
You want to create a single installation project (.WSI) that can produce installation files
for 32-bit, x64, and 64-bit Itanium platforms. To accomplish this, create three releases
and set the appropriate target platform for each one:
32-bit edition
x64 edition
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