Re: [wix-devs] (deprecated) Dark.exe has few deprecated tables

2018-06-07 Thread Rob Mensching
This mailing list address is very dead. See the correct locations for the mailing lists at: http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/ Regards, Rob Mensching CEO FireGiant ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset

Re: [wix-devs] (deprecated) Need help in Wix Bootstrpper Bundle project.

2017-12-27 Thread Rob Mensching
This mailing list is deprecated. Please see: http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/ for updated list of mailing lists. From: Manimala Kottha [mailto:manimala.kot...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2017 11:23 PM To: wix-devs@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [wix-devs] (deprecated) Need help in

[WiX-devs] This mailing list has moved to: wix-d...@lists.wixtoolset.org

2015-07-22 Thread Rob Mensching
This mailing list has moved. Please sign up for the wix-d...@lists.wixtoolset.org mailing list. More information can be found here: https://www.firegiant.com/blog/2015/7/21/new-wix-mailing-lists/ -- _

[WiX-devs] WiX Online Meeting #74

2015-07-21 Thread Rob Mensching
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Re: [WiX-devs] x64 extensions binaries for Windows Server 2016 without WoW64

2015-07-16 Thread Rob Mensching
This is just work (mostly build system work at that). It should be done. Just need someone to step up. ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset | http://www.firegiant.com/ From: Blair Murri [mailto:os...@live.com] Sen

[WiX-devs] WiX Online Meeting #73

2015-07-14 Thread Rob Mensching
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Re: [WiX-devs] x64 extensions binaries for Windows Server 2016 without WoW64

2015-07-12 Thread Rob Mensching
We've known this has been coming and waiting for it to hit priority. A 64-bit Burn will be needed as well. Probably something for someone to do for v4.0 and, probably, v3.11. It isn't as easy as just building 64-bit DLLs. ___ FireGiant

Re: [WiX-devs] Problem Building a Signed WiX 3.10 Build

2015-07-12 Thread Rob Mensching
Try uninstalling Sandcastle and make sure all of its environment variables are removed from your build cmd prompt. ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset | http://www.firegiant.com/ From: John Cooper [mailto:jocoo...

Re: [WiX-devs] New branch for wix311?

2015-07-08 Thread Rob Mensching
You can submit pull requests against wix3/develop. That will become v3.11 after v3.10 moves to master. ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset | http://www.firegiant.com/ From: Heath Stewart [mailto:heath.stew...@micr

[WiX-devs] WiX Online Meeting #72

2015-07-07 Thread Rob Mensching
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Re: [WiX-devs] Marking WIPs as Complete

2015-07-07 Thread Rob Mensching
1. If we were to add something to the frontmatter it'd probably be better to actually put the WiX release instead of just "completed". The current process means don't have to go back and update documents again... but 2. Could do that. How many documents are there?

Re: [WiX-devs] MPF: Adding a wixlib project reference to a solution

2015-07-01 Thread Rob Mensching
Ahh, yes. Sorry, known MPF issue. I have a bad habit of whacking the Project metadata from project references even though MPF based projects require it... because... well, MPF bugs me. ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX to

Re: [WiX-devs] IniFieSearchEx: Reading from an arbitrary ini file

2015-06-30 Thread Rob Mensching
I'd let Bob speak to v3.x but totally reasonable for v4.x. Not sure separate extension is the way to go or if it should get dumped in with all the Util stuff... but either way, seems more than reasonable. ___ FireGiant | Dedicated sup

[WiX-devs] WiX Online Meeting #71

2015-06-29 Thread Rob Mensching
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[WiX-devs] WiX Online Meeting #70

2015-06-16 Thread Rob Mensching
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[WiX-devs] WiX Online Meeting #69

2015-06-08 Thread Rob Mensching
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[WiX-devs] WiX Working Group #68

2015-06-02 Thread Rob Mensching
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Re: [WiX-devs] Assignment agreement broken?

2015-05-29 Thread Rob Mensching
now. ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset | http://www.firegiant.com/ From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@firegiant.com] Sent: Friday, May 29, 2015 1:54 AM To: WiX toolset developer mailing list Subject: Re: [WiX-devs

Re: [WiX-devs] Assignment agreement broken?

2015-05-29 Thread Rob Mensching
No, not known issue. We’ll investigate. Thanks. ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset | http://www.firegiant.com/ From: Mat Barrie [terrafinity] [mailto:mat.bar...@terrafinity.com.au] Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2015 11:

[WiX-devs] No meeting today.

2015-05-26 Thread Rob Mensching
Monday was a holiday and Bob is out today so we'll just pick it up next week. ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset | http://www.firegiant.com/

Re: [WiX-devs] Making wcautil unit-testable

2015-05-19 Thread Rob Mensching
1. Can we actually unit test much by hooking just ::MsiProcessMessage()? If so, cool. 2. Instead of checking in a binary MSI + external UI handler, we can just build them. ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX too

[WiX-devs] WiX Online Meeting #67

2015-05-19 Thread Rob Mensching
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[WiX-devs] Sorry, no meeting today.

2015-05-12 Thread Rob Mensching
This is a short week for me (travel Thursday) and I'm a bit squished. So no meeting this week. We'll get to all the bugs next week. ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset | http://www.firegiant.com/ -

[WiX-devs] WiX Working Group #66

2015-05-04 Thread Rob Mensching
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Re: [WiX-devs] Avoiding re-downloading of payloads

2015-04-29 Thread Rob Mensching
8, 2015 at 8:23 PM, Rob Mensching mailto:r...@firegiant.com>> wrote: Adding a package’s “Package Cache” location as a source seems completely reasonable. ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset | http://www.fire

Re: [WiX-devs] Avoiding re-downloading of payloads

2015-04-28 Thread Rob Mensching
Adding a package's "Package Cache" location as a source seems completely reasonable. ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset | http://www.firegiant.com/ From: Heath Stewart [mailto:hea...@outlook.com] Sent: Tuesday, A

Re: [WiX-devs] Avoiding re-downloading of payloads

2015-04-28 Thread Rob Mensching
Quick answer: Layout is not a cache. It's not trusted or anything like that. Burn will verify the bits later. ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset | http://www.firegiant.com/ From: Heath Stewart [mailto:hea...@outl

[WiX-devs] WiX Online Meeting #65

2015-04-27 Thread Rob Mensching
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[WiX-devs] WiX Online Meeting #64

2015-04-20 Thread Rob Mensching
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Re: [WiX-devs] Future coolness (was RE: Windows Nano server)

2015-04-15 Thread Rob Mensching
er to pick their delivery vehicle. Just as a side note, I looked at the Google Chrome chocolatey package, and it is a thin wrapper around... their MSI !! :) On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 at 13:01 Rob Mensching mailto:r...@firegiant.com>> wrote: Changing title. I don’t understand that questio

[WiX-devs] Future coolness (was RE: Windows Nano server)

2015-04-15 Thread Rob Mensching
Changing title. I don't understand that question. WiX is a build tool, not an installation engine. ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset | http://www.firegiant.com/ From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@nuan

Re: [WiX-devs] Windows Nano server

2015-04-15 Thread Rob Mensching
;s-only Windows 8.1-which makes it worthless on my build servers. -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Integration Development Group | Continuing Development Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.(r) | Lenexa, KS 66214 | Ext: 431050 |jocoo...@jackhenry.com<mailto:jocoo...@jackh

Re: [WiX-devs] Windows Nano server

2015-04-14 Thread Rob Mensching
com/ From: Rob Mensching Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 2:54 PM To: WiX toolset developer mailing list Subject: RE: Windows Nano server And WiX will build those things as appropriate. ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset

Re: [WiX-devs] Windows Nano server

2015-04-14 Thread Rob Mensching
And WiX will build those things as appropriate. ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset | http://www.firegiant.com/ From: John Cooper [mailto:jocoo...@jackhenry.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 2:28 PM To: WiX tools

[WiX-devs] WiX Online Meeting #63

2015-04-13 Thread Rob Mensching
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[WiX-devs] WiX Online Meeting #62

2015-04-06 Thread Rob Mensching
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Re: [WiX-devs] Optional command line arguments WIP updated

2015-03-31 Thread Rob Mensching
Unfortunately, not related at all. That is a completely independent feature. Adding grouping things is generally a "harder" problem. ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset | http://www.firegiant.com/ -Original M

[WiX-devs] WiX Online Meeting #61

2015-03-30 Thread Rob Mensching
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Re: [WiX-devs] Optional command line arguments WIP updated

2015-03-27 Thread Rob Mensching
I like this. I could really use a couple examples (sorry, "visualizing" changes is easiest way for me to understand) So you are suggesting the following: That would match our use of InstallCommand, RepairCommand, UninstallCommand and probably avoid the use of the WixB

Re: [WiX-devs] Pull request

2015-03-24 Thread Rob Mensching
A single commit? Uhh, that's rarely ideal. It's much better to see logical commits to make it easier to review. Sean had a great example when he did the thmutil updates in v4. In this case, we've already reviewed this so it's less of an issue. You don't need a new pull request. Just update the

[WiX-devs] WiX Online Meeting #60

2015-03-23 Thread Rob Mensching
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Re: [WiX-devs] WIXFEAT4707 - Replace Win64 Attribute

2015-03-20 Thread Rob Mensching
64 works for Burn, I'd have to think about whether there's a better name. On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 4:53 PM, Rob Mensching mailto:r...@firegiant.com>> wrote: What if we had 64-bit Burn that was affected by -arch switch? Ultimately, I think I agree with you. Thus my point in #3 whe

Re: [WiX-devs] WIXFEAT4707 - Replace Win64 Attribute

2015-03-20 Thread Rob Mensching
n and util:RegistrySearch in Burn. These aren't going to be affected by the -arch switch, so it doesn't make sense to me to have "force" or "always" in the name. On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 4:21 PM, Rob Mensching mailto:r...@firegiant.com>> wrote: 1. I don’t understand

Re: [WiX-devs] WIXFEAT4707 - Replace Win64 Attribute

2015-03-20 Thread Rob Mensching
1. I don't understand this comment in the WIP: This attribute will not require the "-arch" switch to function properly. The -arch switch is most definitely required. It's handled by default in MSBuild. It's very, very important. 2. I'm also not thrilled with 'Always32Bit' name. I like "always

Re: [WiX-devs] [wix4] WIXFEAT4658 - Add builtin button functionality to thmutil (#89)

2015-03-17 Thread Rob Mensching
100% agree with this position. ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset | http://www.firegiant.com/ From: Sean Hall [mailto:r.sean.h...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, March 1, 2015 12:53 PM To: WiX toolset developer mailing l

Re: [WiX-devs] Burn caching behavior during uninstall

2015-03-17 Thread Rob Mensching
I expect it’s by design since pulling the source out from under an MSI that was delivered by a bundle leaves the user in a bad place if they ever need the source again. Of course, it almost guarantees the MSI source is “leaked” in the cache. There is no great answer here (unless we started teac

Re: [WiX-devs] WiX Test Packages

2015-03-17 Thread Rob Mensching
n Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 1:01 PM, Rob Mensching mailto:r...@firegiant.com>> wrote: Yep. Outstanding task. ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset | http://www.firegiant.com/ From: Brian Rogers [mailto:rogers

Re: [WiX-devs] WiX Test Packages

2015-03-17 Thread Rob Mensching
Yep. Outstanding task. ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset | http://www.firegiant.com/ From: Brian Rogers [mailto:rogers.br...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2015 12:58 PM To: Windows Installer XML toolset de

[WiX-devs] WiX Online Meeting #59

2015-03-16 Thread Rob Mensching
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[WiX-devs] WiX Online Meeting #58

2015-03-09 Thread Rob Mensching
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Re: [WiX-devs] BOOTSTRAPPER_ACTION_CACHE

2015-03-04 Thread Rob Mensching
I can totally see that line of thinking but LAYOUT is actually an outlier, just like HELP. Honestly, if I could do it again, I wouldn’t add LAYOUT to the command-line either and make it more like what I imagined CACHE to be. So, ignore LAYOUT then the states a package can move through from “less

Re: [WiX-devs] BOOTSTRAPPER_ACTION_CACHE

2015-03-04 Thread Rob Mensching
Why? Won’t “additional command-line arguments” be appended so that whatever was called “CACHE” on the command line (/cache or /store or /whateverBAchooses) would get put back on there? Or am I not remembering the code correctly? ___ Fi

[WiX-devs] WiX Online Meeting #57

2015-02-27 Thread Rob Mensching
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[WiX-devs] WiX Online Meeting #56

2015-02-17 Thread Rob Mensching
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[WiX-devs] No WiX Meeting

2015-02-09 Thread Rob Mensching
This is a short week for me. I fly out for SJC early Wednesday morning. So no meeting this week. We'll be back on the week after. Then off again the last week of February. Talk to you all next week! ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support

[WiX-devs] WiX Working Group #55

2015-02-02 Thread Rob Mensching
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Re: [WiX-devs] Issue #4206 - Firewall port list or range not possible #132

2015-01-26 Thread Rob Mensching
seen this validation where only specific words are allowed. E.g. registry extension doesn't check the parameters. Also the current firewall port code doesn't check if the number is between 1 and 65535. From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@firegiant.com] Sent: Sunday, January 4, 2015 02:5

[WiX-devs] WiX Working Group #54

2015-01-26 Thread Rob Mensching
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Re: [WiX-devs] 4632 - Use ETW for logging and additional tracing

2015-01-22 Thread Rob Mensching
Agreed except there would need to be something really compelling in .NET v4.5 for us to move there. It seems .NET v4.0 serves us just fine. ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset | http://www.firegiant.com/ -Ori

Re: [WiX-devs] Agenda items for next meeting

2015-01-22 Thread Rob Mensching
Got it thanks. ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset | http://www.firegiant.com/ From: Sean Hall [mailto:r.sean.h...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 10:43 AM To: WiX toolset developer mailing list Subject

Re: [WiX-devs] WiX Online Meeting time in 2015?

2015-01-21 Thread Rob Mensching
, Rob Mensching mailto:r...@firegiant.com>> wrote: An hour earlier won’t help much. It’d have to be probably 3 hours earlier (6:00 AM PST) to have any hope of not being interrupted by life here. However, it seems like many are interested in taking it back an hour (10:00 AM PST). That’s the t

[WiX-devs] WiX Online Meeting #53

2015-01-21 Thread Rob Mensching
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Re: [WiX-devs] Updating Melt to extract files from the Binary table for patching

2015-01-21 Thread Rob Mensching
Isn't this what we're discussing? Different ways to solve the patching problem? I totally agree we haven't hit consensus. We've worked our way to a big question, the "higher level model" in Bob's words, of how to make patching really work, instead of the disconnected set of tools we use today. I

Re: [WiX-devs] 4632 - Use ETW for logging and additional tracing

2015-01-20 Thread Rob Mensching
Honestly, the way the numbers are going… I don’t know when we drop support for XP SP3. ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset | http://www.firegiant.com/ From: Sean Hall [mailto:r.sean.h...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday,

Re: [WiX-devs] Updating Melt to extract files from the Binary table for patching

2015-01-20 Thread Rob Mensching
extract files from the Binary table for patching On 19-Jan-15 16:13, Rob Mensching wrote: > I'm really not at all excited about *another* tool in v4. Why do we have Light and Lit? :) > I guess that's where I'd like to see this in v4 (or later if it can't make > v4):

Re: [WiX-devs] Updating Melt to extract files from the Binary table for patching

2015-01-20 Thread Rob Mensching
ching which is what we want to get away from. Stephen On Mon, 19 Jan 2015 16:14 Rob Mensching mailto:r...@firegiant.com>> wrote: I'm really not at all excited about *another* tool in v4. I'd much rather we be able to use the MSI and the cabs as the source without having to pr

Re: [WiX-devs] Updating Melt to extract files from the Binary table for patching

2015-01-19 Thread Rob Mensching
I'm really not at all excited about *another* tool in v4. I'd much rather we be able to use the MSI and the cabs as the source without having to preprocess them. Maybe melt.exe keeps the functionality or maybe dark.exe is the best place for it but you only use it to optimize the process. Otherwi

Re: [WiX-devs] WiX Online Meeting time in 2015?

2015-01-19 Thread Rob Mensching
From: Hoover, Jacob [mailto:jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com] Sent: Monday, January 19, 2015 7:44 AM To: WiX toolset developer mailing list Subject: Re: [WiX-devs] WiX Online Meeting time in 2015? An hour earlier or later would be fine by me (if that helps at all). From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@firegia

[WiX-devs] WiX Online Meeting time in 2015?

2015-01-17 Thread Rob Mensching
Greetings, Last year our weekly meeting was regularly scheduled at 9:00 AM PST on Thursdays. Due to changes in life, 9:00 AM PST is turning out to be very challenging for me to attend regularly. Thus I'd like to move the meeting time to another timeslot. Of course, no time slot can be perfect

[WiX-devs] No meeting today.

2015-01-15 Thread Rob Mensching
Sorry, still adjusting to newborn at home. No meeting this week. Hopefully, back on track next week. -- New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. GigeNET is offering a free month of service with

Re: [WiX-devs] WiX Online Meeting #52

2015-01-07 Thread Rob Mensching
rom: Nicolás Alvarez [mailto:nicolas.alva...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 7, 2015 3:08 PM To: WiX toolset developer mailing list Subject: Re: [WiX-devs] WiX Online Meeting #52 2015-01-07 19:58 GMT-03:00 Rob Mensching : > Happy New Year! > > Next WiX Online meeting will be: December 8th, 2014 @1

[WiX-devs] WiX Online Meeting #52

2015-01-07 Thread Rob Mensching
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Re: [WiX-devs] Building WiX 3.9

2015-01-06 Thread Rob Mensching
Okay. How did you resolve the issue? ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset | http://www.firegiant.com/ From: Stephen Tunney [mailto:stephen.tun...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, January 4, 2015 6:32 AM To: WiX toolset deve

Re: [WiX-devs] Building WiX 3.9

2015-01-03 Thread Rob Mensching
519-880-7463 Office NUANCE.COM The experience speaks for itself (tm) From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@firegiant.com] Sent: December-05-14 12:25 PM To: WiX toolset developer mailing list Subject: Re: [WiX-devs] Building WiX 3.9 Adding /pTargetFramework probably will really confu

Re: [WiX-devs] Issue #4206 - Firewall port list or range not possible #132

2015-01-03 Thread Rob Mensching
Left my one comment. Is there really no validation of the port list required? ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset | http://www.firegiant.com/ From: Norbert Schulze [mailto:norbert-schu...@online.de] Sent: Thursday,

Re: [WiX-devs] Updating Melt to extract files from the Binary table for patching

2015-01-03 Thread Rob Mensching
1. Is there real value putting the method in DTF if only Melt uses it? 2. I agree with you and Bob about not breaking WiX v3. 3. Do we need the “-sextract” (what kind of tract?) in v4? Can’t we just do what it does and not bother with suppression? Or is suppression a *really*

Re: [WiX-devs] Updating Melt to extract files from the Binary table for patching

2014-12-31 Thread Rob Mensching
-level folder for consistency? Stephen Tunney Nuance Communications, Inc. Solutions Architect, Imaging Division Waterloo, Ontario, Canada stephen.tun...@nuance.com<mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com> 519-880-7463 Office NUANCE.COM The experience speaks for itself (tm) From: Rob Mensching [mailt

Re: [WiX-devs] NuGet support for wixlibs, extensions

2014-12-31 Thread Rob Mensching
"wix#" seems quite reasonable. Things should be backwards compatible on major version so we shouldn't need minor version. If we do, I suppose we could add that later. PS: I suppose there might be changes necessary to Votive as well but wouldn't know much about that myself. Something to keep in

Re: [WiX-devs] Updating Melt to extract files from the Binary table for patching

2014-12-31 Thread Rob Mensching
1. What does dark.exe do? 2. I'd do what dark.exe does. 3. Need more information about why you need a new method. ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset | http://www.firegiant.com/ From: Tunney, St

Re: [WiX-devs] NuGet support for wixlibs, extensions

2014-12-31 Thread Rob Mensching
Yeah, this was discussed here and there before. I think it came down to someone just needs to do the work in NuGet. ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset | http://www.firegiant.com/ From: Heath Stewart [mailto:hea..

Re: [WiX-devs] 4592 - RestartResource solution and review

2014-12-12 Thread Rob Mensching
Phill, no worries. Everyone has to learn. IMHABO, the WiX toolset is a great place to learn because it is a non-trivial project that can really help a dev grow in lots of different directions. Just keep with it. ___ FireGiant | Dedi

[WiX-devs] WiX Online Meeting #50

2014-12-10 Thread Rob Mensching
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Re: [WiX-devs] Old topic: Burn reboot checkpoint / reboot boundary

2014-12-09 Thread Rob Mensching
Yeah, I was always leaning that way as well. However, I didn't think really hard if there was ever a case you'd want them separated. Anyone have scenarios where you'd need a RestartBoundary without a RollbackBoundary? ___ FireGiant |

Re: [WiX-devs] Building WiX 3.9

2014-12-05 Thread Rob Mensching
Adding /pTargetFramework probably will really confuse things. Some tools must target older frameworks. ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset | http://www.firegiant.com/ From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@n

Re: [WiX-devs] Building WiX 3.9

2014-12-05 Thread Rob Mensching
Jacob, that's VS2013's location for MSBuild. It moved. ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset | http://www.firegiant.com/ From: Hoover, Jacob [mailto:jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com] Sent: Friday, December 5, 2014 7:35 AM

Re: [WiX-devs] Building WiX 3.9

2014-12-05 Thread Rob Mensching
If you have all the VS's installed remove the "/p:PlatformToolset=v120_xp". ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset | http://www.firegiant.com/ From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com] Sent: Friday, Dec

Re: [WiX-devs] Just opened bug 4609 against v3.9

2014-12-04 Thread Rob Mensching
on my pull request<https://github.com/wixtoolset/wix3/pull/181>: the scenario where the source is encrypted but the target is not encrypted can't happen in the current code. And I don't see a valid use case for it either. More comments are always good, though :). I'

[WiX-devs] WiX Online Meeting #49

2014-12-03 Thread Rob Mensching
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Re: [WiX-devs] Patching as non-admin with Burn

2014-11-27 Thread Rob Mensching
For general usage questions, please contact wix-users mailing list. _ Short replies here. Complete answers over there: http://www.firegiant.com/ From: Neginina Javan [mailto:negin...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2014 4:21 AM

Re: [WiX-devs] Bundle Self updates for a Per-User bundle...

2014-11-26 Thread Rob Mensching
Was a bug opened tracking this issue (if it is real)? ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset | http://www.firegiant.com/ From: Hoover, Jacob [mailto:jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com] Sent: Thursday, November 6, 2014 1:38 PM

Re: [WiX-devs] Wix4: Unit testing

2014-11-26 Thread Rob Mensching
ubject: Re: [WiX-devs] Wix4: Unit testing Part of it was my missing the Command where the code was migrated to, the other part was there are 2 lines commented out which are bugs. Is there a WIP for the refactoring you did I could dig into, so I could better understand the intent of the change? Fro

Re: [WiX-devs] [SPAM] Changing URLs in DetectUpdateBegin

2014-11-26 Thread Rob Mensching
Seems reasonable for the BA to provide the update URL at runtime. Seems that setting the value would have to happen before returning from DetectUpdateBegin(). ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset | http://www.fire

Re: [WiX-devs] No answer to posted question

2014-11-26 Thread Rob Mensching
Top of message there says “This post has NOT been accepted by the mailing list yet.”. You’ll want to follow up with the owners of that site why. We don’t have anything to do with it. ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX tools

Re: [WiX-devs] Just opened bug 4609 against v3.9

2014-11-25 Thread Rob Mensching
go? Or should we wait for a conclusion to this thread? On 25-Nov-14 19:18, Rob Mensching wrote: BVariantSetVariant() isn't bad. Maybe, BVariantAssign()? I think the important trick is to control encryption state, right? Almost want a tri-state enum: HRESULT BVariantAssign( __in BURN_VA

Re: [WiX-devs] Just opened bug 4609 against v3.9

2014-11-25 Thread Rob Mensching
easier to talk about code changes when you can actually see it. On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Rob Mensching mailto:r...@firegiant.com>> wrote: Ahh, yes, right. The root issue is that the Source encryption state is rarely set “correctly”. I 100% agree that using the target’s encrypti

Re: [WiX-devs] Just opened bug 4609 against v3.9

2014-11-25 Thread Rob Mensching
f all callers of BVariantCopy properly set the target's encryption state before calling. Using the target's encryption seems counter intuitive to me though, especially since it's an out parameter. On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Rob Mensching mailto:r...@firegiant.com>>

Re: [WiX-devs] Just opened bug 4609 against v3.9

2014-11-25 Thread Rob Mensching
against v3.9 That works, too. That just means at least one additional encryption/decryption cycle, which I was trying to avoid. On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Rob Mensching mailto:r...@firegiant.com>> wrote: Breaking change to BVariantCopy(). What if we always use the encryption state of

Re: [WiX-devs] Just opened bug 4609 against v3.9

2014-11-25 Thread Rob Mensching
To: WiX toolset developer mailing list Subject: Re: [WiX-devs] Just opened bug 4609 against v3.9 Here's how I would fix it: https://github.com/rseanhall/wix3/commit/e14695eeac02b82f7d2ed392606cd1c8a670a7ab On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Rob Mensching mailto:r...@firegiant.com>>

Re: [WiX-devs] Just opened bug 4609 against v3.9

2014-11-25 Thread Rob Mensching
It’s okay. I missed in code review as well. Anyway, we started digging into this at FireGiant and I expect we’ll have a pull request against WiX v3.10 very shortly. ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset | http://ww

Re: [WiX-devs] [SPAM] 4592 - RestartResource solution and review

2014-11-25 Thread Rob Mensching
When rebasing, I usually just set a tag (so I can hard reset if the rebase goes awry), do the interactive rebase, then if all is well, delete the tag. Avoids switch branches when I'm just cleaning up in place. ___ FireGiant | Dedicat

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