Thanks. This seems like the most sane thing to do at the moment. On 10-08-27 11:11 AM, Peter Shirtcliffe wrote: > It depends on what you want to do with your version. If you just want to > display it to the user you can put your version string in the > Product/@Name attribute and put something else like 1.0.0 into the > Version attribute. > > If you try to work around the version numbering scheme, you might run > into difficulties with Upgrades which require versions to be comparable. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sohail Somani [mailto:soh...@taggedtype.net] > Sent: 27 August 2010 15:52 > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] Exceeding version limits > > Hi, > > I'm currently in the middle (or nearing the end, I hope) of porting an > installer from the evil that shall not be named to WiX. > > Mostly, it's been pretty easy. However, one thing which is sticking out > is the version number. The products being ported use the current year as > > the major version number and this means strings like "2011.foo.bar". > > Obviously, if I try to use such a version, I am greeted with CNDL0242. I > > did find a workaround at the following page: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg38954.htm > l > > But that seems like it is guaranteed to cause me problems. Is there a > simpler way to exceed the limits without using VB script? Should I write > > to the registry manually? > > Thanks. >
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