[WiX-users] lowercase GUIDs

2010-05-10 Thread DE�K JAHN, G�bor
On Sun, 9 May 2010 20:46:31 -0700, Rob Mensching wrote: Rob, > The WiX toolset does exactly that. I thought the warning about > specifying mixed cased GUIDs only shows up in pedantic. OK, I fell into my own trap. I used both -pedantic and -wx, so it killed the build process for me. Never gave m

Re: [WiX-users] lowercase GUIDs

2010-05-09 Thread Rob Mensching
The WiX toolset does exactly that. I thought the warning about specifying mixed cased GUIDs only shows up in pedantic. The reasoning behind that pedantic warning is that there were cases where copy and pasting the mixed case GUIDs between different processes might make them not match (because the W

[WiX-users] lowercase GUIDs

2010-05-09 Thread DE�K JAHN, G�bor
Rob, it might have come up earlier (I only found a single reference to it using Google but no answer). Is there any theoretical reason for WiX not accepting lowercase or mixed case GUIDs? I don't mean passing them on like that, I know this is not allowed. But why not simply call ToUpper automat