Re: [WiX-users] Unique Short Names?

Brandon Tyler Wed, 07 Jun 2006 13:53:25 -0700

I had a funny bug with short names today.

I use a _vbscript_ to auto generate my filenames:

Basically something like this that uses the shortname property:

Call RecurseDirectories(".")

Sub RecurseDirectories(Directory)
    Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
    Set objFolder = objFSO.GetFolder(Directory)
    Set colSubfolders = objFolder.Subfolders
    ParentFolderWas = ParentFolder

    Wscript.Echo "Folder Name: " & objFolder.Name & "Folder Short name: " & objFolder.ShortName

Call PrintAllFileElements(objFolder)

End Sub

Sub PrintAllFileElements(objFolder)

Set colFiles = objFolder.Files

    Set objRE = New RegExp
    objRE.Global     = True
    objRE.IgnoreCase = False
    objRE.Pattern    = regExpression

    first = 0

    For Each objFile In colFiles
Wscript.Echo "File Name: " & objFile.Name & "Short name: " & objFile.ShortName
    Next

End Sub

I know it is doing what tallow will do. But I autogenerate the GUID's. (I know huge component rule failure!)

But anyway the bug is that this works great on my d: and my c: drive.

But when I tried to run it from my clearcase v: drive the short names and the long names are the same on a unix mapped drive.

Wix started complaining everywhere about the Name="" to being 8.3 compliant.

Crazy.

I wish we could role some of the functionality of 3.0 back into 2.0!

Brandon

Crazy!

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simon Burgess
Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 3:45 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Unique Short Names?

My installs are only ever for internal consumption and will always be on Windows 2003 server

From: Rob Mensching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 06 June 2006 05:40
To: 'Simon Burgess'; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Unique Short Names?

Possibly. If your install ever ends up on a short name system (and you don't have complete control over that) then you're going to be seriously hosed.

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simon Burgess
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 1:49 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Unique Short Names?

I am using the latest wix v2.

Does anyone know if the ‘Name’ attribute on the <File> element needs to be unique? All of the file’s I install I use the appropriate ‘Longname’ value, but as I ‘m having trouble auto-generating short names I have used the same value for the ‘Name’ attribute for every file and it seems to work fine. Is this likely to cause me problems down the line?

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