Along those same lines, you should consider never using the ProductVersion property in your installation for things like directories or registry keys (if you change them in a major upgrade, you break component rules). That said, you might consider not showing the ProductVersion property for the same reason (keep this purely MSI concept separate from your product display). So define a new property like AppProductVersion that you can set however you like and change whenever you like without negative ramification to Windows Installer.
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Michael Osmond <mosm...@baytech.com.au>wrote: > Hi, > > The approach I would recommend is try not to put so much meaning into > the version number. Make the MSI version number something simple, which > always changes. > > We have deliberately restricted things to Major.Minor.build for the MSI > version number. Internally the buil number is rolled every time > anything changes, so nothing would be released that would not be > different (well almost but that's a different story). > > If you want or need the other information put it somewhere else - in a > reg key, in the product name in Add/Remove programs, in the Summary > Information. > > Michael > > > -----Original Message----- > From: lesterbangs [mailto:datapa...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, 7 January 2009 11:26 AM > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Letters in ProductVersion > > > > Polite bump on this... > Am I approaching this from the wrong angle? I mean, I know I can easily > add a registry entry with the version string in any format I want, but I > am more concerned about how to identify the product in x.y.z format in > order for upgrades to work. > There must be someone else here that has to deal with weird product > versions... > > lesterbangs wrote: > > > > Our product versions mostly conform to the major.minor.build > > convention specified by the MSI standard, but sometimes we have to put > > > letters in the strings to indicate an update or "hotfix", i.e. > 1.0.5.U1 or 2.4.16.HF02. > > > > Obviously this is a big no-no to have letters in ProductVersion > property. > > Worse, sometimes we have updates to hotfixes, or vice-versa, such as > > 3.1.72.U1.HF04. > > > > I imagine we would have to come up with some sort of "translation > table" > > to convert a numbers-letters string to a pure numbers string that MSI > > can understand. I.e. 2.4.16.HF02 becomes 2.4.1602 and 1.0.5.U1 becomes > > > 1.0.5100. > > > > According to the specification, Windows Installer ignores anything > > after the 3rd field. So even if we were able to change it to all > > numbers, > > 3.1.72.U1.HF04 would become 3.1.72.01.04, but only 3.1.72 would be > > recognized. 3.1.720104 would also not work, as field 3 cant be larger > > than 65536. 3.1.7214 would work but only for update numbers less than > 10. > > > > This could get confusing very fast. Is anyone in a similar situation? > > What is the easiest way to mitigate this issue? > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://n2.nabble.com/Letters-in-ProductVersion-tp2113603p2120366.html > Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------ > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It is the best place to buy or sell services for > just about anything Open Source. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It is the best place to buy or sell services for > just about anything Open Source. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > -- Heath Stewart Deployment Technologies Team, Microsoft http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
