Patch Families Can Only Ever Grow

posted by  hjwin (10)  11 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

Peter Marcu has begun talking about new functionality added into WiX 3.0 that he's been working on a lot. One of the specific features is filtering by patch families. Based on a concept Office has used internally, patch families in this case are a set of resources that must be in a patch, and that patch can only be superseded by another patch with at least the same resources – a superset. Those then form the