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nightly updates for Komodo Edit (and the Komodo AUS)

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

I and others here have been hard at work on Komodo 4.3 (due to go final this week) so it has been a while since I’ve posted. One thing I’ve wanted to post about for quite a while is the Komodo auto-update system. I alluded to it waaay back when working on adding auto-update support to Komodo 4.2 […]

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building MSI patch packages (.msp) with WiX

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

This post includes a complete and concrete example of building an MSI patch package (a .msp file to upgrade an existing .msi installation) with WiX.

Background

I’m responsible for building the ActivePython and Komodo installers at ActiveState. On Windows we build MSI packages for installation.

Currently I’m investigating auto-update support for Komodo 4.2. Because Komodo is based on […]

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