Regrettably, after seeing the System.Management.Automation assembly distributed 
by Microsoft with PowerShell v3 HAVING NO VERSION AT ALL, I don't believe many 
developers "get it" any more.  Sigh!

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-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2013 9:15 AM
To: General discussion about the WiX toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] repair does not repair file that was changed

"File versioning is really important." - this feels like the understatement of 
the week. <smile/>

-----Original Message-----
From: John Cooper [mailto:jocoo...@jackhenry.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2013 6:13 AM
To: General discussion about the WiX toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] repair does not repair file that was changed

I suspect it works for me because the chosen companion binary file has it's 
AssemblyFileVersion incremented every build.  If there isn't a build-to-build 
difference, the companion file will compare as "equal" and nothing will happen 
to the unversioned file that is it's companion.

File versioning is really important.

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John Merryweather Cooper
Build & Install Engineer - ESA
Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.®
Shawnee Mission, KS  66227
Office:  913-341-3434 x791011
jocoo...@jackhenry.com
www.jackhenry.com 



-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Makhorin [mailto:m...@gnu.org]
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2013 6:18 AM
To: General discussion about the WiX toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] repair does not repair file that was changed

On Tue, 2013-12-10 at 14:31 +0000, John Cooper wrote:
> Options that work:  1) give the text file a versioned binary 
> CompanionFile;

Tried it--doesn't work in some strange way: if I install the product in 
'Program Files' directory (used by default), the installer doesn't overwrite 
text files marked as companions of some .exe; however, on installing into some 
other directory (say, 'D:/foo') all text files are overwritten including those 
which are not marked as companions. I don't understand the installer's logic.

> 2) play games with the timestamp per other discussions on this list.
> 
> I currently use the CompanionFile technique in production, but I am 
> intrigued by manipulating the timestamps and I have a task for myself 
> to implement a table-driven "touch" custom action to put that into 
> practice.




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