Quinton Tormanen wrote: > 1. Why does MSI still require short names to be provided? It is my > understanding that all OSes since Windows 95 have supported them.
It's a legacy thing that's just been carried on. In a discussion a while back someone managed to come up with a system that could feasibly use short file names. It might have been something like a Novell share. Or something, I don't remember really. But for the vast majority of us it's just an annoying legacy thing. I'm sure someone will correct me soon enough though. > 2. What are the tradeoffs between using WiX 3.0's > automatic-yet-very-cryptic short names vs. me supplying > hand-pick-somewhat-cryptic short names? Option 1 requires that you have to trust that the WiX guys got it right. Option 2 requires a tedious amount of work which isn't really required. You're probably safe with option 1 because the WiX guys were severely paranoid (in a good way) about making any mistakes in it, and nothing really uses the SFN anyway. Rob ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
