Hmm, that's a very good point. I'm just trying to address Rob's concern that a developer wouldn't understand what it means to generate the guid.
Honestly, I'd be more worried about them copying a setup with a guid and failing to modify it (thus introducing collisions for users). It almost argues for us to always omit the guid in our examples in which case we'd then have to somehow educate the user that they should set a guid if they copied one of our examples. Now I'm all confused :) Derek -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Arnson Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 8:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 'DEÁK JAHN Gábor'; 'Rob Mensching'; 'WiX-users' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] rfc: Package element changes Derek Cicerone wrote: > I've done some more thinking about this. I think Rob's main objection with > making Product/@Id optional was that someone might accidentally forget to > specify it. However, what if we displayed a warning to the user whenever > they omitted the Property/@Id attribute informing them that doing so is > non-standard and would result in generating a new ProductCode for each build > - thus making it impossible to do anything other than major upgrades. > Why should that be a warning? -- sig://boB http://bobs.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
