Re: [WiX-users] Component GUIDs on 32/64-bit WXS File

2011-02-08 Thread Rob Mensching
Actually, sounds like a good time to switch to auto-guid. On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 8:02 AM, Quinton Tormanen wrote: > Since we don't share these components with any other installers at this > point, and we only do major updates (no minor updates or patches), would > there be any harm in us taking t

Re: [WiX-users] Component GUIDs on 32/64-bit WXS File

2011-02-08 Thread Quinton Tormanen
Since we don't share these components with any other installers at this point, and we only do major updates (no minor updates or patches), would there be any harm in us taking this opportunity to switch all 12 component GUIDs to '*'? If there are scenarios where auto-guid isn't recommended, please

Re: [WiX-users] Component GUIDs on 32/64-bit WXS File

2011-02-07 Thread Rob Mensching
If the Components are mutually exclusive, then you can probably get away with the same GUIDs. I personally would start planning to get the GUIDs to be different (auto-guid is ideal) just in case the mutual exclusivity runs out. On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Quinton Tormanen wrote: > We've dist

[WiX-users] Component GUIDs on 32/64-bit WXS File

2011-02-07 Thread Quinton Tormanen
We've distributed our application for some time as a 32-bit app, and then later we added a 64-bit installer to get the 64-bit USB drivers installed, but still installed our native application as 32-bit (using WOW64). Now I need to make the 64-bit installer use the 64-bit EXE (while the 32-bit insta