Neil - Maybe that's why it has sat untouched for so long? :)
As for being deprecated right out of the gate, <shrug />. Weird things
happen when you want backwards compatibility :)
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Neil Sleightholm <n...@x2systems.com> wrote:
> Thought I’d jump in as 3736 is mine. Other than the SQL install
> (probably the worst installation package I have ever seen) I have not found
> another install where this would be required. It would be handy for SQL but
> should we really cater for such bad installs? Not at all sure how this
> applies to 4413.
>
>
>
> Neil
>
>
>
> *From:* Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@firegiant.com]
> *Sent:* 07 May 2014 19:38
> *To:* WiX toolset developer mailing list
> *Subject:* Re: [WiX-devs] WIXFEAT:4413 Add WixBundleNumberOfApplyPhases
>
>
>
> The difference between this variable and the variable in #3736 (path to
> cache) is that the path to the cache would be useful to provide on the
> command-line to an ExePackage element. The number of times apply is going
> to be executed is only really useful to the BA for its progress bar and
> thus not a good candidate for a Variable.
>
>
>
> I’ll let Bob weigh in on the way to incorporate this into WiX v3.x (if at
> all <smile/>). It sounds like you agree the best change in WiX v4.0 is to
> enhance the interface, which is cool. So, if this does get added as a
> variable in WiX v3.x then I guess it gets added as deprecated right out of
> the gate (which is kinda’ odd).
>
>
>
> PS: I think pulling pull request discussions here is generally “A Good
> Thing”.
>
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