On Thursday, September 27, 2007, at 11:00AM, "Kaveh Goudarzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi All, > > I want see if it's ok to use the md5 of a dir name relative to >INSTALL dir as its ID? I have written a tallow equivalent ant task >which automatically creates my fragment for me as part of my source >build however I find I need to be able to refer to directories which >were created as part of the auto-generated fragments.
That's pretty much what I do. I prefix them with "AUTO_" partly as documentation, and partly because there's also a requirement that the first char in the Id is alphabetic. > My thinking is that MD5 is a 32-character hexadecimal string so it >should fit happily within the 72 chars that id has allocated in the db >column and since its a deterministic derivative of the dir name I can >always work out and refer to the id of any directory in the >autogenerated fragements from within my hand rolles wxs files. > > > Are there any downsides to this approach? what are the alternatives? It makes reading the wxs files a bit of a pain, but I can't think of any other downsides. Writing out the complete directory path in an XML comment before the <Directory> helps a little here. Cheers, Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
