Bugs item #1670269, was opened at 2007-02-27 19:14 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by elsapo You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=642714&aid=1670269&group_id=105970
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: elsapo (elsapo) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: wix3 Getting Started tutorial uses repeated GUIDs Initial Comment: In the wix3 Getting Started (in the distributed, compiled help file version), the same GUID is used for Package, Product, and Directory. I'm pretty sure that is a bug -- I mean, if the user replaces all those instances with one new GUID (which is what a newbie may think they're supposed to do), I think that will be very wrong -- they're really supposed to put a new GUID into each occurrence. The web tutorial version very nicely uses invalid GUIDs in all places, to force the enduser to generate new GUIDs, like so: <Product Name='Foobar 1.0' Id='YOURGUID-86C7-4D14-AEC0-86416A69ABDE' and furthermore, the web version changes the GUID every time that the user is supposed to change the GUID, to avoid the user thinking they are supposed to copy & paste the GUID from above. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: elsapo (elsapo) Date: 2007-02-27 19:35 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1195173 Originator: YES I used the sourceforge web browse cvs source, to see if I could post a suggested patch for this, but there doesn't seem to be anything at what looks like the obvious place, namely, wix/doc: http://wix.cvs.sourceforge.net/wix/wix/doc/ I tried wix/wix to see if another doc dir was buried further down, but that one (http://wix.cvs.sourceforge.net/wix/wix/wix/) doesn't have a doc subdirectory. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=642714&aid=1670269&group_id=105970 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ WiX-devs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-devs
