Re: [WiX-users] How does heat maintain consistent GUIDs?

2015-03-29 Thread Rob Mensching
, March 29, 2015 7:12 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] How does heat maintain consistent GUIDs? I am curious to know how WiX keeps track of GUIDSs automatically generated for files when we use HeatDirectory. For example, I have a project with the following in my

[WiX-users] How does heat maintain consistent GUIDs?

2015-03-29 Thread Pat Blair
I am curious to know how WiX keeps track of GUIDSs automatically generated for files when we use HeatDirectory. For example, I have a project with the following in my .wixproj file... Target Name=BeforeBuild PropertyGroup WixToolPathC:\SourceControl\WiX39\/WixToolPath

Re: [WiX-users] How does heat maintain consistent GUIDs?

2015-03-29 Thread John Cooper
...@jackhenry.com -Original Message- From: Pat Blair [mailto:p...@daburu.net] Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2015 9:12 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] How does heat maintain consistent GUIDs? I am curious to know how WiX keeps track of GUIDSs automatically generated

Re: [WiX-users] How does heat maintain consistent GUIDs?

2015-03-29 Thread Hoover, Jacob
Message- From: Pat Blair [mailto:p...@daburu.net] Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2015 9:12 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] How does heat maintain consistent GUIDs? I am curious to know how WiX keeps track of GUIDSs automatically generated for files when we use

Re: [WiX-users] How does heat maintain consistent GUIDs?

2015-03-29 Thread cknoll
Also see Rob's response here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16120473/wix-is-it-safe-to-use-autogenerated-guid-on-component-tags -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/How-does-heat-maintain-consistent-GUIDs-tp7599757p7599762.html

Re: [WiX-users] How does heat maintain consistent GUIDs?

2015-03-29 Thread Pat Blair
Thanks to everyone for your responses. This helps a great deal and I am most grateful. The link to the suggested post seems to confirm what everyone is saying: ...Took us a long time to get to a algorithm that is stable for Component Guids. Huge win for everyone once it worked. :) – Rob