I see, thanks for the help! Our team has been filling that fourth index with larger numbers for years with no ill affects, so I assumed this was acceptable. I will deliver to them the bad news ;)
I will also open a bug for wix to flag such builds with compile warnings so other teams don't encounter this issue in the future On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Bob Arnson <b...@joyofsetup.com> wrote: > On 6/9/2014 6:51 PM, Ed wrote: > > I understand the build version must be less than 65536, but I believe > that > > refers to the third index in the version number. > Product versions must be less than or equal to 255.255.65535.65535. > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370859%28v=vs.85%29.aspx makes > that clear for the first three fields but doesn't talk about the fourth. > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372488%28v=vs.85%29.aspx shows > it's a 16-bit limit. > > > There is no compile error > > for a high number in the fourth version index > That's a bug, for sure. Can you open one at http://wixtoolset.org/issues/? > > -- > sig://boB > http://joyofsetup.com/ > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions > Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems > Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. > Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing & Easy Data Exploration > http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > -- -Ed ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing & Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
