It just goes to show how easy it is to commit gross component rules violations even after months of reading articles and blogs on component rules!
However, it seems that I have also misunderstood the purpose of MSIENFORCEUPGRADECOMPONENTRULES property. I was under the impression that it would add to verbose log. I mean, if MSI *knows* that there is component violation, it would be of great help if it could add a sentence to the log saying at least something along the lines of: There is component rules violation of some sort! After reading all that I could find on MSIENFORCEUPGRADECOMPONENTRULES property I can't say that I am 100% sure about what is it that it really does? How can the consequences of having this property defined or not be seen on some practical example? I was certainly none the wiser in this specific case since verbose logs were identical with or without it, for all that I could see. It *seems* that a small update patch may be applied by MSI in some cases even if there was a component rule violation and this property prevents it. -----Original Message----- From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 1:10 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Does Pyro (or Torch) ignore 4-th version number? Tony Juricic wrote: > but reading the install.log I cannot find anything a bit more explicit > about this violation. It is certainly not saying something like "you > changed the name of your root installation folder and you shouldn't" :) > Sorry, it's not that polite.<g> The "Windows Installer Components" topic summarizes the magic of component rules with two bullets: In brief, these rules are: * Each component must be stored in a single folder. * No file, registry entry, shortcut, or other resources should ever be shipped as a member of more than one component. This applies across products, product versions, and companies. So changing the directory violates 50 percent of the component rules.<g> -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
