I believe InstallShield lies in the Version column of the File table if this
option is set (setting it to something huge like 65535.65535.65535.65535,
which is the maximum supported value). I don't think this is a particularly
good idea, however. You can't do it with WiX - the linker takes the
information directly from the file's resources.
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Mike Dimmick
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Bardon
Sent: 15 March 2007 16:21
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Overide a file version to force upgrade
On to an upgrade question-I have an installer that just installs a single
EXE right now, and I'd like to be able to create an upgrade path for it.
The trick is, I'd like to be able to have a package that will upgrade within
the same file version. If I change only the package code (small upgrade),
and set the condition to upgrade minimum version 1.0.0.0 inclusive, the
upgrade still seems to run from the command line, but no files are actually
changed unless their versions have been modified (e.g. changing the exe's
version to 1.0.0.1 from 1.0.0.0). I'd like to be able to leave the exe as
version 1.0.0.0, and then publish an installer that will replace the version
on the target machine. In Installshield, I was able to do this by setting a
property that overrode the file version for upgrade checks-is there a way to
do the same in Wix? All I want to do is update components where the version
is less than or equal to the version in the package-not just less than.
This comes up a lot in our development/QA builds.
I'd also rather not mess with the version numbers by incorporating a build
number at the end (i.e. 1.0.0.X). All four segments are meaningful to our
apps, and you can't seem to add a fifth, so we're sort of stuck.
Any suggestions?
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