That's an excellent point. The devil, as always, is in the details of when someone screws up. Since Murphy is looking out for us, it never manages to work ideally. :)
-Jamey ____________________________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:wix-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Mensching > Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008 1:15 PM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Merge Module Help > > I think you've over-simplified the Component Rules. Once a Component > contains a set of Resources, those Resources must ship in that Component > with that GUID forever. Resources are files, registry keys, shortcuts, > etc. (basically almost everything that can be a child of the Component > element). > > The case that gets really tricky is to have one build where a Resource > disappears (usually accidentally) then the next build where the Resource > comes back. It needs to get the same Component and GUID. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:wix-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Minnis > Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008 13:08 > To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Merge Module Help > > I couldn't find a feature request for that with a couple of quick > searches, > but it is possible that I missed it. > > This is definitely not a trivial problem to solve, but I don't see why it > would be an intractable one. For a first pass, I'd generate a fragment > WXS > file where one element is a hash or CRC of the rest of the file. As long > as > the existing file generates the same hash/CRC, the file is unmodified and > you can safely import the existing autogenerated XML structures. You can > then do a diff with the existing file/folder structure and only modify > where > necessary. I'd make doing a merge with the existing file a new command > line > switch for Heat. > > Obviously, there are a lot of implementation details I'm sweeping under > the > rug, but conceptually I don't see why the problem is really hard, assuming > that the first pass can only work with unmodified output of the Harvester. > It wouldn't make everyone happy, but it is a method which most people > could > work with. > > -Jamey > ____________________________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:wix-users- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Mensching > > Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008 11:01 AM > > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Merge Module Help > > > > This is a constant feature request (I'm surprised there isn't a feature > > request already). Generating Component GUIDs that follow the Component > > Rules is an *extremely hard* problem to solve perfectly. The auto- > > generated Component GUIDs is pretty good (assuming it doesn't have any > > bugs) but has a number restrictions. Heat already supports those with > the > > "-ag" switch. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:wix-users- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Minnis > > Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008 09:15 > > To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' > > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Merge Module Help > > > > That's unfortunate. > > > > I could probably write something to keep the GUIDs standardized, but it > > would be more work than it's worth for a hobby project I'm doing in my > > spare > > time. > > > > Most of our updates will only involve changes to text files rather than > > adding or removing files. That implies a patch to me. If we have to > add > > or > > remove more than a small number of files, I guess we'll bite the bullet > > and > > do a major upgrade. It isn't ideal but it will work. > > > > I submitted a feature request (#2022259). Hopefully it will get some > > attention. > > > > -Jamey > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:wix-users- > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Luke Bakken > > > Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008 8:09 AM > > > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > > > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Merge Module Help > > > > > > >> I'm surprised that Heat doesn't have the functionality of leaving > the > > > >> existing GUIDs in place. I just presumed I wasn't seeing how to do > > it. > > > > > > > > There was (is?) a project called "Paraffin" (http://xrl.us/mnhwj) > for > > > > managing GUIDs. I've never used it so I can't vouch for it, but it > may > > > > be what you're looking for. > > > > > > > > > > Hm. On re-reading that article it appears that Paraffin doesn't > > > actually manage your GUIDs. You could accomplish something custom for > > > your app using heat.exe and a database of some sort. It's definitely a > > > missing part of the toolset. > > > > > > Where I work, teams that deal with large numbers of components just do > > > major upgrades all the time. 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