Actually, I think that comment was made a quite a while ago. Dark has come quite a ways in WiX v3 (mostly because Derek picked up where Robert left off) and is quite good at translating most well formed MSI files into .wxs source code. There are plenty of crazy things you can do in your MSI to confuse the decompiler and we'd be happy to have bugs filed against them... but the decompiler is still a lower priority tool than the others in the core toolset
However, if you have some strange authoring that is common but the decompiler doesn't handle correctly, file a bug and let us know. There are already a special switch in the decompiler to help it when handling a VSI (Visual Studio setup project) generated MSI. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Hamflett Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 3:31 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] schema problem while compiling the decompiled msi Did you decompile it using dark? Dark isn't intended as a proper decompiler, and the WiX guys have always said that you won't necessarily be able to decompile something with dark and get candle/light to build the result. It's intended to give you a starting point, or so that you can see how a given installer might do something. Rob shambhu kumar wrote: > hi > i tried to compile the wxs file generated after the the decompilation of msi > generated by using Install shield. > but errors related to schema occured. > i have no idea how to resolve this error. plz tell me > the sollution or tell me wether it is possible to do that i tried. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
