It can be worse than that. If any of those Files are shared across different Products that can be installed on the user's machine, you can get into scenarios where the Files are incorrectly reference counted. I tried to capture much of the trickiness here: http://blogs.msdn.com/robmen/archive/2003/10/18/56497.aspx
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Williamson Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 9:56 AM To: 'Eric Fesh'; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Request for Advice regarding File Organisation If you change the GUID for the components then they are totally different components regardless of their contents ... so yes upgrading in the future would be limited to a major upgrade only i believe. Dave Williamson Clear Sky Software 704.568.5544 sales 704.554.6300 support 704.943.0585 fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.clearskysoftware.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Fesh Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 12:44 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Request for Advice regarding File Organisation Hello all: I'm wondering if there are reasons why I should not be setting up and organizing my WiX projects the way I currently am. I have an nmake file that runs tallow across the files that I want to install. The .xml file that is produced then gets processed by two perl scripts. The first (twiddle.pl) fills in GUIDS for all of the files and renames the components and outputs to a .wxs. The second (twaddle.pl) generates features from the the .xml file and outputs to a second .wxs. Finally, the contents of the two .wxs files are referenced in a main .wxs file that sort of controls everything else. The reason I ask is that two build runs will result in different GUIDS for all of the files in the project. Is this a bad thing if I want to provide upgrades later on? I don't save the .wxs files in my source repository because I see them as intermediate steps... -- -- Eric Fesh Customer Support Engineer/Software Test Engineer Verari Systems Software, Inc. 110 12th Street North, Suite D103 Birmingham, AL 35203 Phone +1-205-397-3141 ext. 3149 Fax +1-205-397-3142 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.verarisoft.com/ The information contained in this communication may be confidential and is intended only for the use of the recipient(s) named above. If the reader of this communication is not the intended recipient(s), you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication, or any of its contents, is strictly prohibited. If you are not a named recipient or received this communication by mistake, please notify the sender and delete the communication and all copies of it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
