Yes, I believe that is possible... I think extensions are provided the
version of the toolset somewhere...
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 3:27 AM, Neil Sleightholm <n...@x2systems.com> wrote:
> Is it possible to detect the WiX toolset version inside the extension so
> it can fail at build time rather than runtime?
>
> Yes, very much a downside. Shipping a single BA is not possible...
> just like the old days with WiX extensions (which still happens when new
> major versions of WiX toolset come out).
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Neil Sleightholm <n...@x2systems.com>wrote:
>
>> Ok fair enough, thought I'd ask though as I have just release a BA in
>> to the wild!
>>
>> Neil
>>
>> At this point in time, BA's need to be recompiled when moving from one
>> version of WiX toolset to the next. Still too early in the lifecycle of
>> Burn to start making binary backwards compatibility a goal.
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 7:36 PM, Bob Arnson <b...@joyofsetup.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 03-Oct-12 16:24, Neil Sleightholm wrote:
>>>
>>> A change has been made to the burn engine OnDetectRelatedBundle()
>>> method in version 3.7 to add the parameter relationType; am I correct that
>>> this is a breaking and will mean that BA written against v3.6 won’t work in
>>> v3.7?****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> If I am correct could this change be moved to a new function so it is
>>> non-breaking?****
>>>
>>> Yes, it's a breaking change and not the only one. Either approach (new
>>> parameter or new function) would be a breaking binary change. The COM-crazy
>>> way would be to add a new interface but that's how you end up with IFooEx2
>>> interfaces.<shudder>
>>>
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