Arnette, Bill wrote: > Non-Windows Installer installers use the SharedDlls registry > key to refcount the usage of common/shared dlls. By default > Windows Installer will only increment that refcount if it > already exists so that the other installer will track the > refcount properly if a WI installer installs the same file. > Windows Installer also maintains its own refcount for > components it tracks elsewhere. You can force Windows > Installer to create a SharedDLLs entry if it doesn't already > exist with the msidbComponentAttributesSharedDllRefCount > attribute on a component.
So this is what the SharedDllRefCount='yes' attribute means... Let me try to get the consequences for me straight: if I have an old installer using the SharedDll mechanism and new installers are msi based (and will stay so for the forseeable future) I would not have to explicitly use SharedDllRefCount='yes' and it'd still work if I install my newer version in parallel (yes, we do that...) to the older version and I could deinstall in arbitrary order. It would not work, however, if I installed the new version first and than the older one in parallel. But as that's not a scenario I need to support, I'd be ok without using the SharedDllRefCount='yes' attribute. Did I get that right? > So what that log indicates is that a non-WI installer > installed that file before your product was installed and > that since the SharedDlls refcount will not go to 0 after > your product is uninstalled, the file will not be removed so > that the other product is not broken. Ok, that's probably exactly what happens as I have an older version installed (or at least not fully uninstalled) Thanks for the explanation, Andre' ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
