Re: [WiX-users] What problems can occur with versioned companion files? (alternatives for handling file downgrades?)

2014-07-11 Thread Jesper Alf Dam
oing is very unusual. Since it's > so unusual, you should manage the GUID manually. It certainly isn't a design > we'd generally encourage. > > ___________ > FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset |

[WiX-users] What problems can occur with versioned companion files?

2014-06-20 Thread Jesper Alf Dam
I recently filed bug 4448, in which the following response was posted: Versioned companion files are atypical and would seem to bring their own problems for upgrades and patching. We don't plan to expand * GUIDs to cover this case. That bug is probably not the right place to ask this,

Re: [WiX-users] Best approach to override file versioning

2014-06-02 Thread Jesper Alf Dam
On 29-05-2014 19:13, Phil Wilson wrote: > Yes, in this case scheduling RemoveExistingProducts before > CostInitialize should solve the problem if it's related to this: Yeah, that is what I figured. Unfortunately, that is not a legal scheduling. According to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library

[WiX-users] Best approach to override file versioning

2014-05-26 Thread Jesper Alf Dam
We have a product that ships with a number of independently versioned third-party libraries, in addition to our own files (whose file versions follow the product version) Now, we've encountered a situation where some of the third party files we want to ship in our installer have a lower version