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Comment on Major upgrades now easier than ever by Bob Arnson

Bob Arnson — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:54:05 +0000

Igor,

Thanks for the detail in the bug reports. I’ll take a look at the right fixes soon.

Comment on Major upgrades now easier than ever by Igor

Igor — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:18:37 +0000

Thank you!
Sorry for your distraction.
I already entered two defects on Wix bug database.

Comment on Mercurial/TortoiseHg installer now built with WiX by wcoenen

wcoenen — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:00:49 +0000

This post reminded me of this:
http://www.mail-archive.com/wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg23963.html

If wix still has 2 master repositories, I can certainly see the case for mercurial.

Comment on Major upgrades now easier than ever by Bob Arnson

Bob Arnson — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:20:36 +0000

Igor, I’m not an expert on assembly authoring so please send mail to wix-users@sourceforge.net.

Comment on Major upgrades now easier than ever by Igor

Igor — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:52:50 +0000

And one more question/issue:
when I’m using several components with files with the same names (for example, assemblies satellites):

Then I’m getting warning that the short file name ’some name’ was generated for multiple files.

But if I will specify Component Id equal to File Id manually, then this warning is gone.

It seems to me generation of short file names happens before Component Id equals to resource Id.

Comment on Major upgrades now easier than ever by Igor

Igor — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:21:01 +0000

Thank you for quick answer.
Then another question:
I created next component with file which I want to install into GAC (Wix 3.5.1426):

And I got error message that: file with assembly=”.net” should specify KeyPath=”yes”, but it is only one file in component which should be by default key for that component. Is it an issue or by design?

Comment on Major upgrades now easier than ever by Bob Arnson

Bob Arnson — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:38:03 +0000

Igor,

All the language changes are at the WiX level; they don’t affect how MSI itself works, so you still have to follow all of its rules, like for policy files.

Comment on Major upgrades now easier than ever by Igor

Igor — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:14:04 +0000

Hi Bob,

Overall thank you for your investment in Wix code!

I have a small question about previous simplifying in wix language(http://www.joyofsetup.com/2009/12/31/simplifying-wix-component-authoring/):
is it possible also to simplify components with publisher policy files? Because by msi rules config and assembly (policy) should be in the same component. Will “policy” components be treated as multi-file components?

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Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:49:58 +0000

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Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:28:37 +0000

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