The feedback was quick and consistent: Marking files vital by default is a good thing. So in the next weekly release of WiX, files will get the msidbFileAttributesVital attribute by default. The FilesVitalByDefault property and -fdvital switch have been removed; in their place, SuppressFilesVitalByDefault and -sfdvital turn off the default “vital” behavior.
Monthly Archives: May 2008
Highlights of WiX v3.0.4109.0
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
WiX v3.0.4109.0 was released on Friday, 09-May-08. You can download it from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.4109.0/.
New features
The WiX installer is now available as an x64 package. This package installs MSBuild tasks and targets in both Program Files and Program Files (x86).
The Package/@Platform attribute now accepts the more normal values x86, x64, and ia64.
The preprocessor SYS variable BUILDARCH replaces [...]
VirtualBox 1.6.0 setup another example of the second law of thermodynamics
Monday, May 5, 2008
VirtualBox, the desktop virtualization product acquired by Sun Microsystems in February, shipped version 1.6.0 on Friday. I previously mentioned VirtualBox in my blog post on setup testing with virtual machines. I lauded their clean setup and low custom-action count.
Unfortunately, the latest version hasn’t kept up that standard of Setup Goodness™.
The x64 package isn’t marked with [...]
RFC: Vitality
Saturday, May 3, 2008
The msidbFileAttributesVital File attribute bit says to Windows Installer that the file is vital to the operation of the installation and if it can’t be installed, the installation should fail. In an installation showing user interface, if a file can’t be installed, MSI shows a dialog box to let the user retry, ignore, or cancel [...]
Highlights of WiX v3.0.4102.0
Saturday, May 3, 2008
WiX v3.0.4102.0 was released on Friday, 02-May-08. You can download it from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.4102.0/.
New features
The assembly version numbers of assemblies like wix.dll are now “locked” at 3.0.0.0. Doing so lets anybody build a WiX extension for WiX v3 without having to rebuild it every time a new build of WiX is released. The file versions will [...]