Rob,
There have been some maintenance/uninstall issues with needing physical
media that have be avoided by putting UI type dll's there. I'll find
out the entire history tomorrow and post.
I'm very interested to see if this is necessary or what the recommended
course is for the situation.
Thanks,
Tom
________________________________
From: Rob Mensching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 5:17 PM
To: Thomas Svare; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] FW: Directories/Merge Modules
You really should not be writing to the Installer directory. Why are
you doing that?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas
Svare
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 2:29 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] FW: Directories/Merge Modules
Hello,
I've fixed my problem but I'm not entirely sure why the fix works and
I'd like to know. In fact, I made the change so I could search my
verbose log a little easier.
I ended up changing the Directory Id and short name for the Guid
directory to something like Xyz so that it would be easier to type a
search string.
<Directory Id="Xyz" Name="Xyz"
LongName="{XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX}">
This solved my problem. I'm not sure why. I can only think the
previous directory id was causing problems due to all caps and numerics
or something like that. I'd be interested to know what the issue was.
Thanks,
Tom
________________________________
From: Thomas Svare
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 3:26 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Directories/Merge Modules
Hello,
I'm converting an existing InstallShield merge module to Wix. This
merge module puts some files in the Windows Installer cache directory to
support maintenance operations.
My code is as follows:
<Directory Id="WindowsFolder">
<Directory Id="Installer" Name="INSTAL1~"
LongName="Installer">
<Directory Id="XXXXXXXX_XXXx_XXXX_"
Name="{XXXXXX~" LongName="{XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX}">
<Component /Component>
.
.
</Directory>
</Directory>
</Directory>
When installed the files go to
C:\Installer\{XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX}, the Windows
directory is ignored. A verbose log show the WindowsFolder.guid
property correctly but the files end up in the wrong place.
Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks,
Tom
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