[WiX-users] Duplicate component GUIDs

2008-04-17 Thread Brent Rockwood
Last night I fixed a bug in my installer where I had accidentally duplicated GUIDs on two different components. Luckily I caught this before we ship, but if I had missed it, it would obviously have been a big problem. Is there any good reason that the compiler/linker should not warn about this?

Re: [WiX-users] Duplicate component GUIDs

2008-04-17 Thread Richard
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brent Rockwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Last night I fixed a bug in my installer where I had accidentally duplicated GUIDs on two different components. Luckily I caught this before we ship, but if I had missed it, it would obviously have been a big

Re: [WiX-users] Duplicate component GUIDs

2008-04-17 Thread Bob Arnson
Brent Rockwood wrote: Last night I fixed a bug in my installer where I had accidentally duplicated GUIDs on two different components. Luckily I caught this before we ship, but if I had missed it, it would obviously have been a big problem. Is there any good reason that the compiler/linker

Re: [WiX-users] Duplicate component GUIDs

2008-04-17 Thread Christopher Painter
Validation ICE08 catches duplicate guids within a single database. It's also a good idea to have a tool that inventories all of your packages and does a more holistic check similar to InstallShields Conflict Solver tool. I think the reason this is a fairly common problem because 1)

Re: [WiX-users] Duplicate component GUIDs

2008-04-17 Thread Christopher Painter
Unfortunatly many people will just turn the validation off because they don't know how to solve the problem and it seems to `work good enough`. Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brent Rockwood writes: Last night I fixed a bug in my installer where I had