So, the moral of the story is that anything past the third quad is eye candy as far as the Windows Installer Service is concerned. Not unexpected in some ways.
So the choices are: 1) ignore anything past the third quad (even extra quads) across the board; 2) enforce the original concept of the four quad version number, even if the Windows Installer Service doesn't care; OR 3) remain inconsistent. I don't like 3) because consistent behavior is reliable behavior. I can tolerate 1) as long as it is consistently applied and documented. But intellectually I prefer 2) because standards are standards. But we live in a world where standards are often honored in the breach. Mainly, we just need consistency. -- John Merryweather Cooper Build & Install Engineer - jXchange Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® Shawnee Mission, KS 66227 Office: 913-341-3434 x791011 [email protected] www.jackhenry.com ________________________________________ From: Bob Arnson [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2014 5:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WiX-devs] Bug 4443 On 6/12/2014 3:35 PM, John Cooper wrote: > It's interesting that the installer service will handle a malformed version. The MSI SDK says that ProductVersion is a three-field string. So it apparently ignores the fourth field. In fact...checking...yep: MSI completely ignores anything past the first three fields. You can have a fifth field if you want. ARP will happily show the freaky version. WiX won't let you build that, however; it stops at four fields. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing & Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems _______________________________________________ WiX-devs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-devs NOTICE: This electronic mail message and any files transmitted with it are intended exclusively for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. The message, together with any attachment, may contain confidential and/or privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, printing, saving, copying, disclosure or distribution is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately advise the sender by reply email and delete all copies. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing & Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems _______________________________________________ WiX-devs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-devs
