Hello WiX community,
I've got a requirement to change the name of the installed files based on
the user input. The initial thought was to use the property values, but it
turns out not to be supported. I've also read this: "
http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Using-a-lt-Property-gt-Value-inside-lt-File-Name-gt-td6000865.html";
and it seems the best option is to modify the MSI database before launching
the msiexec...
However, I'm thinking about the following workaround:
- install the file with its original name to somewhere under TempFolder
(unique path based on product code)
- author a CopyFile element under each of such files and make it create
a copy with the desired name (in order to support property values this can
only be done with a custom action which populates the DuplicateFile table
with necessary temporary rows)
I understand that the obvious drawback of this is having a component hidden
under temp and not used. I think I can live with this...
Any other "features" of such approach? I know I will have to author
RemoveFile elements to drop the copied clones.
Thanks in advance for any suggestion,
-- Yan
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