Hi Marcel,
>The reason I have to put my files at this specific location is that I am
>writing an installer for an existing opensource tool (maven) which expects
>certain files in this exact location.
Well, since it is open source, you could easily solve the problem at the
source. How does maven set up under linux? Does every user need to set it up
for himself in its own /home? I'm sure there several packages (deb, rpm) of
maven already, you could ask their providers for how they install maven in a
whole system all users scope. I would bet, that in the linux version, those
files get created on first run of maven, that would be needed then to be ported
to the windows project of maven - and the whole project is a bit more rounder
;-)
Regards, Oliver
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To: Marcel Schutte<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 9:44 AM
Subject: RE: [OT] [WiX-users] user home predefined name?
Hi Marcel,
>In the tutorial that I've been reading, it is suggested that you should always
>let the installer write files, because that way it 'knows' about them and can
>remove them on uninstall.
Correct for this, but on uninstall, does this delete the files from all
user-directorys or just from that one of the user who does uninstall?
>So yes, I could have my files copied there on first run, but I would prefer
>letting the installer do it. Besides that, the list of predefined names does
>contain the users desktop, my documents, >appdatafolder etc. It only lacks a
>way to refer to their parent, C:\Documents and Settings\<myaccount>\.
Well, appdatafolder is the correct place for your application data, why do you
want to go anywhere else?
>Is there a way to point to this folder from a <directory> tag?
Sure, you could manually add a "..\" to the path of the directory.
Bye Oliver
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