Thanks. I want the NetFxExtension library to use the new attribute instead
of WixMbaPrereqPackageId, but with the current authoring I can't. The
current row uses binder variables, which means the WixMbaPrereqPackageId
has to be specified. Which is why I wanted to get rid of that and make the
extension code create the row.
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 7:11 PM, Bob Arnson <b...@joyofsetup.com> wrote:
> The WixMbaPrereqPackageId variable is only used at build time to fill out
> the WixMbaPrereqInformation table in the BA manifest. It's all done in
> authoring, not extension code: see src\ext\BalExtension\wixlib\Mba.wxs.
> Normally it has only one row but you could use the same table instead of
> adding a new one. That would let WixMbaPrereqPackageId keep working if it's
> used. Otherwise, your changes to the compiler extension would keep adding
> rows like it does in the pull request, just to the existing table. And the
> NetFxExtension library could use that attribute instead of the variable.
>
> Off the top of my head, that should work ok and it eliminates the
> duplication between having one "special" prereq package and <n> others.
>
> On 18-May-14 18:38, Sean Hall wrote:
>
> It's definitely silly :)
>
> I think the best thing to do is to change the implementation of the
> WixMbaPrereqPackageId variable to look the same to the Prereq BA, which was
> probably what Rob was trying to tell me. To be fully backwards compatible,
> the Bal extension could add an attribute that says to always install the
> package. This attribute wouldn't be exposed to the user, and setting this
> variable in v4.x wouldn't do anything.
>
> However, I don't know how to do this. This was the first time I had
> messed around with a compiler extension. How would the Bal extension find
> out that the variable was set so that it could add that packageId to the
> table?
>
>
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