I would suggest this presumes that the person doing the install knows
what they are doing! In a corporate environment that may be true and in
that case you could build installs with vital off (having said that most
of our installs are run silently so failing is a better option). I think
the install failing is preferable to having a support call because one
"vital" file is missing.
Neil
From: Christopher Painter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 04 May 2008 14:48
To: Neil Sleightholm; WiX-users
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] RFC: File vitality
There is a recent PSDK.MSI thread where Simon Scott suspects a
FilesInUse pattern bug:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.platformsdk.msi/browse_t
hread/thread/17f76202ee2b2742/dc061211ad4db61a?lnk=raot
He thinks MSI is having a false positive on a locked file and that
pressing ignore results in a successful instalation. In this scenario,
making all component files vital by default would actually result in a
blocked installation.
It would be difficult to predict in advance of shipping a product which
files might trip this possible bug so IMHO it might be best to leave
vital not set and let the administrator roll the dice when choosing to
hit ignore, retry or cancel. If you don't, you'll be getting the
support call anyways since the install rolled back.
Neil Sleightholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I would vote for make vital true by default with the option of
setting
it off via the command line. I have never really thought there
are many
occasions when making a file optional would be ok. I would guess
that a
lot of installs (mine included) don't set this but that clicking
"ignore" would actually break the install.
Neil
Neil Sleightholm
X2 Systems Limited
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Bob Arnson
Sent: 04 May 2008 05:04
To: WiX-users
Subject: [WiX-users] RFC: File vitality
I just posted a request for comments on my blog, to ask about a
change
we're considering to simplify WiX authoring. You can see the
post here:
http://www.joyofsetup.com/2008/05/03/rfc-vitality/
The short version is that we're considering marking all files
with the
msidbFileAttributesVital bit set by default. That's a behavior
change
and we wanted to get feedback before deciding either way. Please
read
the whole post and let us know what you think, either via blog
post
comments or mail on this list.
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http://joyofsetup.com/
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