Re: [WiX-users] RFC: File vitality

2008-05-04 Thread Neil Sleightholm
I would vote for make vital true by default with the option of setting it off via the command line. I have never really thought there are many occasions when making a file optional would be ok. I would guess that a lot of installs (mine included) don't set this but that clicking ignore would

Re: [WiX-users] RFC: File vitality

2008-05-04 Thread Christopher Painter
There is a recent PSDK.MSI thread where Simon Scott suspects a FilesInUse pattern bug: http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.platformsdk.msi/browse_thread/thread/17f76202ee2b2742/dc061211ad4db61a?lnk=raot He thinks MSI is having a false positive on a locked file and that

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Re: [WiX-users] RFC: File vitality

2008-05-04 Thread Neil Sleightholm
I would suggest this presumes that the person doing the install knows what they are doing! In a corporate environment that may be true and in that case you could build installs with vital off (having said that most of our installs are run silently so failing is a better option). I think the

Re: [WiX-users] RFC: File vitality

2008-05-04 Thread Christopher Painter
As I said, that failing install is going to generate a report call either way. In this scenario, the install may actually succeed and thereby avoid that support call. Also if that file is critical an installed product could possibly still launch the program which in turn could perform it's

[WiX-users] Error 1334 (file not found in cabinet)

2008-05-04 Thread Kevin Richardson
Hi all, I'm authoring an installer that contains several merge modules (among the other things): - Microsoft_VC80_CRT_x86.msm - policy_8_0_Microsoft_VC80_CRT_x86.msm - Microsoft_VC80_DebugCRT_x86.msm - policy_8_0_Microsoft_VC80_DebugCRT_x86.msm The installer has been building and installing