So in your cleanup efforts, why not cut ties with the old versions completely? Put it in a new and unique folder, and handle the common files. I don't know if any of them use COM, the GAC, or if you have access or the ability to request a rebuild of the application. For COM, I'd suggest eliminating the inter-dependency of multiple versions (since it sounds like the rules of COM weren't followed for backwards compatibility) by using a manifest to do Reg-Free COM. If you need to add a manifest without rebuilding the application, mt.exe from the Windows SDK's can do that.
-----Original Message----- From: Griesshammer, Christoph (GE Healthcare) [mailto:christoph.griessham...@ge.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 11:02 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Hiding UpgradeCode Attribute Warning Jacob, I'm already sabotaged. The scenario is: Another team developed an InstallShield package for an msi, and a Wise package for an exe. The packages didn't even match in what they were delivering (a headache in itself). They didn't follow the installer rules. What they did, was deliver to a temp directory, then ran a "custom action" .bat file to copy the files to a version directory within the main directory for the product. But there's also common files between versions, so there's logic about whether to replace those or not. Anyways, it breaks all the rules about how to specify components, so the installer has no idea of what files are actually there. So there were so many installation defects, that now we had to come in to clean up their install. But we can't reuse GUIDs and their program doesn't even show up in the add/remove programs. And just to make everything more fun, you can have multiple versions of the product installed at the same time. It's causing a headache, because you can't do an upgrade, but we can't even follow normal rules of adding shared GUIDs to components between versions. We have resorted to completely removing the uninstall option if a legacy product is installed (ridiculous, right?). So I need to suppress the upgrade, because the idea of an upgrade is really just an install of a different version. If you have a way better way to go around this, please feel free to educate me. Because this is also my first WiX project, and I'm just working with what I got. Christoph -----Original Message----- From: Hoover, Jacob [mailto:jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 11:52 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Hiding UpgradeCode Attribute Warning Why would you want to intentionally sabotage yourself? Provide an UpgradeCode, and just don't release any upgrades. -----Original Message----- From: John Cooper [mailto:jocoo...@jackhenry.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 10:33 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Hiding UpgradeCode Attribute Warning Provide the UpgradeCode and suppress upgrades in the MajorUpgrade element. -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Integration Development Group | Enterprise Notification Service Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® | Lenexa, KS 66214 | Ext: 431050 |jocoo...@jackhenry.com -----Original Message----- From: Griesshammer, Christoph (GE Healthcare) [mailto:christoph.griessham...@ge.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 10:27 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Hiding UpgradeCode Attribute Warning The e-mail below is from an external source. Please do not open attachments or click links from an unknown or suspicious origin. I am getting the following error for my project: The Product/@UpgradeCode attribute was not found; it is strongly recommended to ensure that this product can be upgraded. I am WELL aware of the following: 1) You should always have an upgrade code, even if you don't plan on upgrading. But for this specific product, I am positive I do not want the upgrade code. We will never support an upgrade for this product, due to other incredibly obnoxious issues. 2) This is a warning, not an error. Unfortunately, for releasing we MUST specify to treat warnings as errors, so I need to mitigate this error. My question is, how do I suppress this error since it doesn't have an error code, just a message? Or is there anything to include in the code to mitigate the error? 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