Oh the trees I could kill on that subject.
As much as I love TFS, I still can't believe that after 6 years there still isn't any build in AssemblyInfo processing in the default build process templates. I can only imagine that Microsoft figured they couldn't make everyone happy so they wouldn't try to make anyone happy. I've seen this fear of trying over and over in the industry. IMO, and this applies to many other things, there are certain things that need to be out of the box to help the most number of people. Because left to their own devices, a great many developers will come up with far worse solutions then the default one that was judged to have fallen short of perfection. Maybe I'm just jaded from Stack Overflow where the last two question I just asked was one person trying to write a bootstrapper using .BAT files and another trying to write an installer using C# and ZIPs stored as embedded resources. Chris ---------------------------------------- From: "Rob Mensching" <r...@robmensching.com> Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2013 9:21 AM To: "General discussion about the WiX toolset." <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> 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. -- 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. 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