Scott:
MPF stands for 'Managed Package Framework', an incomplete and buggy framework
for building project systems that integrate into Visual Studio. It's part of the
Visual Studio SDK. Consider yourself lucky that you don't have to deal with it.
Don
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Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Did WiX V3 projects break compatibility with earlier
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It seems the real bug then is that there are two code paths... VB/C/C++ should
be implemented via the MPF stuff as well... then this never would have happened.
I say this still not knowing what MPF stands for or anything about it though.
Scott
On 14-May-08, at 10:45 AM, Justin Rockwood wrote:
No, other projects that are not based on the MPF (which includes VB/C#/C++) do
not lock because they do not have that bug. However, projects that are based on
the MPF (IronPython, if I remember correctly) do exhibit the same bug that WiX
has. This bug, in my mind, is one of the most annoying ones that should have
higher priority (along with the other one that you pointed out - same line
output). Thanks for the bug reports!
Justin
From: Scott Palmer
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 7:14 AM
To: Justin Rockwood
Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Did WiX V3 projects break compatibility with earlier
builds?
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Justin Rockwood wrote:
I hate the locking as well. Unfortunately, this is a bug in the MPF (the Visual
Studio SDK) that they have not fixed yet. We will have to just fix it on our own
instead of waiting for a fix from them. Note that it's not a trivial fix either
because it requires a separate thread to do the build.
Are you saying that other tasks like compiling and linking C/C++ code lock
things the same way.. but I assume for short enough periods of time that it
isn't noticeable? I'm just wondering why I only notice this with WiX projects.
...
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