On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Adrian Buehlmann <adr...@cadifra.com> wrote: > Since we will be going to switch to doing *.msi installers, > I'll post what I have learned while doing non-TortoiseHg > Windows installers (this is in no way restricted to using WiX): > > Windows installer packages must have product versions in the form > > 999999.999999.999999.999999 > (A) (B) (C) (D) > > That is: 4 groups of digits. No other characters are allowed. > > It is possible to specify string version resources, but these are ignored > by Windows Installer (visible in the properties dialog of an exe or dll). > > Windows Installer only respects "binary" file versions (as noted above). > > Windows installer ignores the fourth group (D). > > This means, at least one of A, B or C must be counted up when publishing > a new, regular msi installer for a product, intended to replace all > "previous" installer versions ever published. > > Otherwise, users will get an error message of the form "The same > version of this product is already installed" and installation is refused, > meaning they have to manually uninstall before installing the 'update' > (Windows Installer will notice that the two installers are different by > looking at a GUID in the msi, but it will not be able to tell which one > is "newer"). > > Windows applications usually count up D when doing a new build. > > So if a Windows application pushes out a broken 0.9.2.? release, they have > to name the fix 0.9.3.0 (or higher). > > Doing a 0.9.2.1 to fix 0.9.2.0 does not work, because Windows Installer > ignores the fourth group when considering updates.
It's been suggested to me by Matt and others that we should declare a 1.0 release soon. This seems like as good of an excuse as any to declare 1.0.0 for the initial MSI installer. This still leaves us problems for nightly builds, it seems. Assuming we keep to our monthly release schedule, I suppose we could number stable nightlies from 1.0.50..99 and unstable nightlies from 1.0.100..200. This leaves room for up to 50 "patch" releases, 50 stable nightly builds, and as many unstable nightlies as we need. Feels kludgy, but I don't have any better ideas at the moment. -- Steve Borho ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ Tortoisehg-develop mailing list Tortoisehg-develop@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tortoisehg-develop
