I feel like this subject has surely been discussed into the ground on this forum, but I can't find anything with my searches. I found a few blogs (http://installing.blogspot.com/2006/02/auto-generation-of-short-file-an d.html, for one) that related to it, but didn't quite answer my question. Perhaps someone can point me to a complete discussion on this if that's easier than re-hashing this.
1. Why does MSI still require short names to be provided? It is my understanding that all OSes since Windows 95 have supported them. 2. What are the tradeoffs between using WiX 3.0's automatic-yet-very-cryptic short names vs. me supplying hand-pick-somewhat-cryptic short names? My applications require either Windows 2000 or newer or Windows 98 or newer, depending on the application. However, both requirements guarantee long filename support, do they not? Is this just so that users can reference the short filenames in scripts, etc. without worrying about them changing? Thanks for any thoughts. Quinton Tormanen Software Engineer Delta Computer Systems, Inc. http://www.deltamotion.com <http://www.deltamotion.com/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
