Hi Chris,
Thanks for the advice :-) ... when you say with "AUTO_" as documented
... where do you mean? I'm wondering if I missed some guidance doc
which I need to look at before I make this change.
Also what is the nature of your frag gen code/script? I found tallow
in its current form (wix2.0) did not do what we needed but I'm very
interested in combining what I have done (tallow ant custom task)
with other code out there so that we can pool dev efforts and
hopefully contribute to the WiX project as a whole.
thanks again + kind regards,
Kaveh.
Chris Ridd wrote:
>
> On Thursday, September 27, 2007, at 11:00AM, "Kaveh Goudarzi" <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I want see if it's ok to use the md5 of a dir name relative to
>> INSTALL dir as its ID? I have written a tallow equivalent ant task
>> which automatically creates my fragment for me as part of my source
>> build however I find I need to be able to refer to directories which
>> were created as part of the auto-generated fragments.
>
> That's pretty much what I do. I prefix them with "AUTO_" partly as
> documentation, and partly because there's also a requirement that the first
> char in the Id is alphabetic.
>
>> My thinking is that MD5 is a 32-character hexadecimal string so it
>> should fit happily within the 72 chars that id has allocated in the db
>> column and since its a deterministic derivative of the dir name I can
>> always work out and refer to the id of any directory in the
>> autogenerated fragements from within my hand rolles wxs files.
>>
>>
>> Are there any downsides to this approach? what are the alternatives?
>
> It makes reading the wxs files a bit of a pain, but I can't think of any
> other downsides. Writing out the complete directory path in an XML comment
> before the <Directory> helps a little here.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
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