Are there any documents describing the MSI file format/structures or is MSDN it?
thanks -mike On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 06:30, Mike McCormack wrote: > Gregory M. Turner wrote: > > > Hmm, that pure parser business... is that for reentrancy? Or is that a > > side-effect of some larger "pureness"? > > > > If they aren't portably generated, just do it ahead of time -- betcha AJ will > > have no problem checking in some pre-generated stuff so long as the sources > > to regenerate them are available to those who have the right tools. > > The pureness is about reentrancy, though it maybe necessary so that two > parsers don't have conflicting global variable names. I also thought > about pre-generated parser code... that's probably a good idea if > Alexandre agrees. > > >>2) make the database read/write - not immediately important, but > >>necessary later > > > > > > does MSI do that? I thought that was done by some funky tool... or does it > > use msi.dll to do the work? > > There's some tools you can download from MSDN, however MSI.DLL does all > the work of reading and writing the database. > > >>I don't have lots of time to work on this at the moment, so if somebody > >>wants to have a go, I'm happy to help them out. > > > > > > well considering I'm the only recipient of this, would I be the "somebody" you > > have in mind? ;) (just kidding of course ... as for me, my plate is pretty > > full right now, but I will of course take a look at it when I get the chance > > and see if there's anything I can do to help. Since I need to brush up on my > > parsing skills if I ever want to help Ove with widl, maybe I can find > > something to do in that arena.) > > It's probably better that somebody who's looking for stuff to do does > it, seeing you've got other stuff to do. I might do some work on it > periodically, but it seems like it might be a fun project for somebody > to take up. > > Mike > > >
