Re: [WiX-users] Reference counting issues

2008-02-28 Thread Simon Topley
Excellent, thanks Mike, I've fixed it. Simon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 February 2008 16:16 To: Simon Topley; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Reference counting issues Windows Installer does not

Re: [WiX-users] Reference counting issues

2008-02-28 Thread Simon Topley
us no count is incremented. I'll test this theory shortly. Simon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 February 2008 16:16 To: Simon Topley; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Reference counting issues Windows Installe

Re: [WiX-users] Reference counting issues

2008-02-27 Thread mike
Windows Installer does not count references, strictly. It notes in the registry which products have installed a component, and where the key path of the component was installed to. It adds one reference for each product that installs the component. When you uninstall a product, or remove a feat

Re: [WiX-users] Reference counting issues

2008-02-27 Thread Simon Topley
The only difference I can see in the logs is that version 1.0 has this Component: cECWERM; Installed: Local; Request: Absent; Action: Absent And version 2.0 has this Component: cECWERM; Installed: Absent; Request: Null; Action: Null I'm inventing these version numbers obviously. This m

[WiX-users] Reference counting issues

2008-02-27 Thread Simon Topley
Hello again all, I'm back sooner than I thought I would be, with a reference counting issue. Imagine you had a software product, you release new versions every 6 months so customers frequently run previous versions of the software with current versions. Imagine now that you installed version 1.0 t