I have a follow-up question:
Where are the docs that say how Windows Installer sets the dates on files
that it installs?
I ask because it turns out that the version resource is not the culprit in
this case. It's sort of the opposite problem.. the versioned files are OK,
the unversioned files got hosed.
My installer picks source files from an install of another companies
product. We need to redistribute a portion of the files from an SDK that we
install from a third party. It seems that when running the third party's
install (which uses Windows Installer) the date of unversioned files is
being set to the date that the install is performed. This is obviously a
bad idea, because when these files are pulled into my installer the date
stamp on them is independant of the actual age of the file. This allows me
to easily get into the situation where I overwrite newer files with older
files when I don't want to be.
Thanks in advance.
Scott
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