Re: [WiX-users] [Wix-users] Less than completely random ProductCodes

2011-05-09 Thread Christopher Painter
E-Mail Me --- On Mon, 5/9/11, Aaron Klor wrote: From: Aaron Klor Subject: Re: [WiX-users] [Wix-users] Less than completely random ProductCodes To: chr...@deploymentengineering.com, "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." Date: Monday, May 9, 2011, 11:32 AM I a

Re: [WiX-users] [Wix-users] Less than completely random ProductCodes

2011-05-09 Thread Aaron Klor
I appreciate that input tremendously! I had figured that the replies here would be something to that effect (thanks to David also). Really, all that we need is a deterministic way to generated GUIDs (to GREATLY simplify our WiX authoring and maintaining), and we had thought that something like this

Re: [WiX-users] [Wix-users] Less than completely random ProductCodes

2011-05-09 Thread Christopher Painter
IMO, I don't ever do this.  I really don't care who does and what reasons they come up for doing it, I don't and will not ever do it.   I also generate ProductCodes at build time to support major upgrades.  I've also generated multiple instance installers where I generate new guids for each of t