Panel::Software provides a customized edition of WiX built on top of WiX 3.11.2 with the following changes
- Bundle/@RunAsAdmin attribute created a bootstrapper that requires elevation when launched
- RemotePayload can be specified on any package payload rather than the main setup file
- Add heat.exe harvest type "payload_dir" to harvest a PayloadGroup. Specify -url link to set base DownloadUrl for remote paylodas
- Fix WiX issue 6144: Support multiple attached containers in bundles. Allow bootstrappers larger than 2GB
- Fix WiX issue 6174: Fix discovery of payloads with no container that need to be assigned to the default container
- Changes by WiX up to build 3.14.0.4118
- Build for .NET Framework 4.0
The WiX Toolset builds Windows installation packages from XML source code. The toolset supports a command-line environment that developers may integrate into their build processes to build Windows Installer (MSI) packages and executable bundles. The WiX GitHub project hosts the WiX source code Git repositories. The following links will take you to more details: